MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD AND THE GRAVITY MODEL

In this paper, the maximum likelihood method for trip distribution modelling is thoroughly analysed. Use is made of the so-called "family" of gravity models as an aid to the discussion of certain difficulties, hitherto unrealised, which must be clarified before the method may be accepted as a completely sensible means of modelling trip distribution.(a) /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Maxwell House, Fairview Park
  Elmsford, NY  United States  10523
• Authors:
  • MacLean, A S
• Publication Date: 1976-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 287-297
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research /UK/
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Pergamon Press, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Gravity models; Mathematical models; Physical distribution; Traffic measurement; Travel; Trip distribution
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• ITRD Terms: 9016: Distribution (gen); 690: Gravity model; 698: Journey
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00149012
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 17 1977 12:00AM