Discovering relationships between factors of round-trip car sharing by using association rules approach

Procedia Engineering 161 ( 2016 ) 1282 – 1288

1877-7058 © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of WMCAUS 2016 doi: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.573

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