Incorporating the influence of latent modal preferences on travel mode choice behavior

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 164-178

  Vij, Akshay ^a   Carrel, André ^a   Walker, Joan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral mixture model; Latent class choice model; Lifestyle; Modality styles; Travel demand modeling

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; LIFE CYCLE; MIXTURES; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TRAVEL TIME;

CHOICE MODEL; LIFESTYLE; MIXTURE MODEL; MODALITY STYLES; TRAVEL DEMAND MODELING;

MODAL ANALYSIS;

DECISION ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFESTYLE; MODEL TEST; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 84883194539     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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