Catching the phever: Simulating electric vehicle diffusion with an agent-based mixed logit model of vehicle choice

JASSS

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Brown, Maxwell ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Electric vehicle; Mixed logit; Network effects; Vehicle choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875723323     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.2127     Document Type: Article

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