Travel demand models in the developing world: Correcting for measurement errors

Transportation Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 231-243

  Walker, Joan L ^a   Li, Jieping ^b   Srinivasan, Sumeeta ^c   Bolduc, Denis ^d  

^a 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^b Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; Choice and Latent Variable Models; Measurement Error; Mode Choice; Travel Demand Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960095495     PISSN: 19427867     EISSN: 19427875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3328/TL.2010.02.04.231-243     Document Type: Article

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