Children's travel to school: Discrete choice modeling of correlated motorized and nonmotorized transportation modes using covariance heterogeneity

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-206

  Ulfarsson, Gudmundur F ^a   Shankar, Venkataraman N ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MODELING; PROBABILITY; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 42449151613     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b3360     Document Type: Article

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