Assessing customer preferences for hydrogen-powered street sweepers: A choice experiment

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 12003-12014

  Walter, Stephan ^a,b   Ulli Beer, Silvia ^a   Wokaun, Alexander ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Commercial fleet management; Conjoint analysis; Fuel cell vehicle; Hydrogen vehicle; Market niche

Indexed keywords

CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CONJOINT ANALYSIS; FLEET MANAGEMENT; FUEL CELL VEHICLES; HYDROGEN VEHICLES; MARKET NICHE;

BIOGAS; COMMERCE; COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; EXPERIMENTS; FUEL CELLS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN FUELS;

FLEET OPERATIONS;

EID: 84863781364     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.05.026     Document Type: Article

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