Nonlinearity and specification of attitudes toward risk in discrete choice models

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2014, 2007, Pages 27-31

  Liu, Xiang ^a   Polak, John W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; RISK ANALYSIS; SPECIFICATIONS; TRANSPORTATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; EXPECTED UTILITY THEORY (EUT); RANDOM UTILITY THEORY (RUT);

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 42449141555     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2014-04     Document Type: Article

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