Walking down the habitual lane: Analyzing path dependence effects of mode choice for social trips

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 222-227

  Sharmeen, Fariya ^a   Timmermans, Harry ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Habit and attitude; Long term dynamics; Mode choice; Past behaviour; Path dependence; Social travel

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; DATA SET; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84907336037     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.07.012     Document Type: Article

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