Syllabus
The syllabus gathers the material used in the course, that is the slides of the videos as well as the text files. It makes it easier to search the material of the course and to find some concepts using the search functionality of your pdf reader.
Note taking
Under each video, a PDF document containing the transcript of it is available as a link. This document will be useful for taking your notes. You will also find all these PDFs by following this link.
Textbooks
- Ben-Akiva, M. and Lerman, S. (1985). Discrete Choice Analysis. Theory and Application to Travel Demand. MIT Press.
- Ben-Akiva, M., and Bierlaire, M. (2003). Discrete choice models with applications to departure time and route choice. In Hall, R. (ed) Handbook of Transportation Science, 2nd edition pp.7-38. Kluwer.
- Train, K. (2009). Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press.
Biogeme
Biogeme is an open source freeware designed for the maximum likelihood estimation of parametric models in general, with a special emphasis on discrete choice models. It is the software used in this course.
Bierlaire, M., and Fetiarison, M. (2009). Estimation of discrete choice models: extending BIOGEME. Proceedings of the 9th Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) September 9 - 11, 2009.
Bierlaire, M. (2016). PythonBiogeme: a short introduction. Technical report TRANSP-OR 160706. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
Bierlaire, M. (2017). Calculating indicators with PythonBiogeme. Technical report TRANSP-OR 170517. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.