Well-being and activity-based models

Transportation

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1189-1207

  Abou Zeid, Maya ^a,b   Ben Akiva, Moshe ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity based models; Activity schedule approach; Happiness; Random utility models; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION;

ACTIVITY-BASED MODELS; ACTIVITY-SCHEDULE APPROACHES; HAPPINESS; RANDOM UTILITY MODEL; WELL BEING;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 84867502264     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-012-9387-8     Document Type: Article

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