The role of general and specific attitudes in predicting travel behavior – A fatal dilemma?

Travel Behaviour and Society

Volumn 10, Issue , 2018, Pages 33-41

  Kroesen, Maarten ^a   Chorus, Caspar ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causality; Endogeneity; General and specific attitudes; Panel data; Travel behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 85030169753     PISSN: 2214367X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2017.09.004     Document Type: Article

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