Analyzing within garage fuel economy gaps to support vehicle purchasing decisions – A copula-based modeling & forecasting approach

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 63, Issue , 2018, Pages 186-208

  Wali, Behram ^a   Greene, David L ^a   Khattak, Asad J ^a   Liu, Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Copula modeling and forecasting; Fuel economy gap; Label estimates; My MPG; On road; Two vehicle garages

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORECASTING; FUELS; GARAGES (PARKING); ROADS AND STREETS; SALES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

BIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION; COPULA MODELS; MY MPG; NON-LINEAR VARIATION; ON-ROAD; PURCHASING DECISIONS; STOCHASTIC DEPENDENCE; STOCHASTIC DEPENDENCIES;

FUEL ECONOMY;

DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING METHOD; FUEL; GOVERNMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSPORT VEHICLE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85047071857     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2018.04.023     Document Type: Article

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