Information impact on quality of multimodal travel choices: Conceptualizations and empirical analyses

Transportation

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 625-645

  Chorus, Caspar G ^a   Arentze, Theo A ^a   Timmermans, Harry J P ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Structural equation model; Travel choice quality; Travel information

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL; TRAVEL CHOICE QUALITY; TRAVEL INFORMATION;

TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFORMATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 34748918864     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-007-9120-1     Document Type: Article

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