The logsum as an evaluation measure: Review of the literature and new results

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 9 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 874-889

  de Jong, Gerard ^a,b   Daly, Andrew ^b,c   Pieters, Marits ^d   van der Hoorn, Toon ^e  

^a Significance   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Stratelligence   (Netherlands)

^e Ministry of Transport Public Works and Water Management Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consumer surplus; Discrete choice models; Logsum; Project assessment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION CHARGES;

CONSUMER SURPLUS; LOGIT CHOICE MODEL; LOGSUM METHOD; PROJECT ASSESSMENT;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

COST; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; LOGIT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROJECT ASSESSMENT;

AMSTERDAM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND; RANDSTAD; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND; THE HAGUE; UTRECHT; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547419727     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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