A pilot study into the perception of unreliability of travel times using in-depth interviews

Journal of Choice Modelling

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-28

  Tseng, Yin Yen ^a   Verhoef, Erik ^a,b   De Jong, Gerard ^c,d,e   Kouwenhoven, Marco ^c   Van Der Hoorn, Toon ^f  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c Significance   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e NEA   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Perception; Stated preference design; Travel time unreliability; Value of reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055090973     PISSN: 17555345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1755-5345(13)70002-2     Document Type: Article

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