Assessing the quality of origin-destination matrices derived from activity travel surveys: Results from a Monte Carlo experiment

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2183, 2010, Pages 49-59

  Cools, Mario ^a   Moons, Elke ^a   Wets, Geert ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITIES; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; ORIGIN DESTINATION MATRICES; POLICY MAKERS; QUALITY DATA; SAMPLING RATES; SUPPORT POLICY; TRANSPORTATION POLICIES; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL SURVEYS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 78751658194     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2183-06     Document Type: Article

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