Are transit users loyal? revelations from a hazard model based on smart card data

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 610-618

  Trépanier, Martin ^a   Habib, Khandker M N ^b   Morency, Catherine ^a  

^a INTERUNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTRE ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hazard model; Public transit; Smart card; User loyalty

Indexed keywords

COLLECTION SYSTEMS; DISCRETE TIME; HAZARD MODELS; MODE CHOICE; PUBLIC TRANSIT; QUANTITATIVE KNOWLEDGE; RESIDENTIAL DENSITY; TIME-PERIODS; TRANSIT USERS; UNEMPLOYMENT RATES; USER LOYALTY;

MASS TRANSPORTATION; SMART CARDS; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

HAZARDS;

COMMUTING; DATA SET; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SURVIVAL; UNEMPLOYMENT;

CANADA;

EID: 84861712864     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: 12086029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L2012-048     Document Type: Article

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