Mode Choice for School Trips Long-Term Planning and Impact of Modal Specification on Policy Assessments

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2513, Issue , 2015, Pages 97-105

  Ermagun, Alireza ^a   Rashidi, Taha Hossein ^b   Lari, Zahra Ansari ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATIONS; LONG TERM PLANNING; LONG-TERM IMPACTS; MODE CHOICE; NESTED LOGIT MODEL; POLICY ASSESSMENT; POLICY MAKERS; RANDOM FOREST METHODS; TRANSPORTATION MODE; URBAN AREAS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84982672522     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2513-12     Document Type: Article

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