Activity based travel demand models as a tool for evaluating sustainable transportation policies

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-66

  Malayath, Manoj ^a   Verma, Ashish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Sustainable transportation policies; Trip based and activity based travel demand modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868595310     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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