Interactive stated choice surveys: A study of air travel behaviour

Transportation

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-79

  Collins, Andrew T ^a   Rose, John M ^a   Hess, Stephane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airline choice; Information search; Online travel agent; Stated choice experiments; Survey realism

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAVELS; AIRLINE CHOICE; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SEARCH; INTERACTIVE SURVEYS; MODEL ESTIMATION; RANDOM UTILITY MODEL; REAL MARKETS; SEARCH TOOLS; STATED CHOICE; STATED CHOICE SURVEYS; STATED PREFERENCES; SURVEY METHODOLOGY; TRAVEL AGENTS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; CIVIL AVIATION; EXPERIMENTS;

SURVEYS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRPORT; INTERNET; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 81955168139     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-011-9327-z     Document Type: Article

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