Scrutinizing individuals’ leisure-shopping travel decisions to appraise activity-based models of travel demand
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Activity-based Modeling of Travel Demand
Since the beginning of civilization, the viability and economic success of communities have been, to a major extent, determined by the efficiency of the transportation infrastructure. To make informed transportation infrastructure planning decisions, planners and engineers have to be able to forecast the response of transportation demand to changes in the attributes of the transportation system...
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عنوان ژورنال: Transportation
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0049-4488,1572-9435
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-010-9272-2