A joint count-continuous model of travel behavior with selection based on a multinomial probit residential density choice model

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 31-51

  Bhat, Chandra R ^a,b   Astroza, Sebastian ^a   Sidharthan, Raghuprasad ^c   Alam, Mohammad Jobair Bin ^b   Khushefati, Waleed H ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF   (United States)

Author keywords

Land use and built environment; Maximum approximate composite marginal likelihood; Multivariate dependency; Self selection; Travel behavior; Treatment effects

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; LAND USE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; TRANSPORTATION;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; MAXIMUM APPROXIMATE COMPOSITE MARGINAL LIKELIHOODS; MULTIVARIATE DEPENDENCY; SELF-SELECTION; TRAVEL BEHAVIORS; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CAR OWNERSHIP; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LOCATION DECISION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84903198933     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2014.05.004     Document Type: Article

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