Testing for nonlinearity in the choice of a freight transport service

European Transport - Trasporti Europei

Volumn , Issue 50, 2012, Pages

  Rotaris, Lucia ^a   Danielis, Romeo ^a   Sarman, Igor ^a   Marcucci, Edoardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discrete choice models; Freight transport demand; Nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876668253     PISSN: 18253997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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