A behavioral freight movement microsimulation model: Method and data

Transportation Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-62

  Samimi, Amir ^a   Mohammadian, Abolfazl ^a   Kawamura, Kazuya ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity based approach; Behavioral models; Freight demand forecast

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858605623     PISSN: 19427867     EISSN: 19427875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3328/TL.2010.02.01.53-62     Document Type: Article

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