On the (im-)possibility of deriving transport policy implications from hybrid choice models

Transport Policy

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 217-222

  Chorus, Caspar G ^a   Kroesen, Maarten ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Causality; Endogeneity; Hybrid choice model; Integrated latent variable discrete choice model; Perceptions

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY MAKING; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 84907552836     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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