New approaches in transportation planning: Happiness and transport economics

NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-32

  Duarte, André ^a   Garcia, Camila ^b   Giannarakis, Grigoris ^c   Limão, Susana ^d   Polydoropoulou, Amalia ^c   Litinas, Nikolaos ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Discrete choice models; Happiness; Latent variables; Transport surveys; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954031785     PISSN: 13859587     EISSN: 15737071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11066-009-9037-2     Document Type: Article

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