R Dataset / Package Ecdat / ModeChoice

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the ModeChoice data set which pertains to Data to Study Travel Mode Choice . The ModeChoice data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the ModeChoice data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("ModeChoice"). This will load the data into a variable called ModeChoice. If R says the ModeChoice data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the ModeChoice R data set. The size of this file is about 16,954 bytes.

Data to Study Travel Mode Choice

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 840

observation : individuals

country : Australia

Usage

data(ModeChoice)

Format

A dataframe containing :

mode: choice : air, train, bus or car
ttme: terminal waiting cost time, 0 for car
invc: in vehicle cost-cost component
invt: travel time in vehicle
gc: generalized cost measure
hinc: household income
psize: party size in mode chosen

Source

Greene, W.H. and D. Hensher (1997) Multinomial logit and discrete choice models in Greene, W. H. (1997) LIMDEP version 7.0 user's manual revised, Plainview, New York econometric software, Inc .

References

Greene, W.H. (2003) Econometric Analysis, Prentice Hall, http://www.prenhall.com/greene/greene1.html, Table F21.2.

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