Duration and frequency of telecenter use: once a telecommuter, always a telecommuter?

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 6C, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 47-68

  Varma, Krishna V ^a   Ho, Chaang Iuan ^a   Stanek, David M ^a   Mokhtarian, Patricia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; TELECOMMUTING; TRAVEL DEMAND;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

RESPONSE BIAS; SURVIVAL THEORY; TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT;

TELECOMMUTING;

EID: 0031995490     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-090X(98)00007-2     Document Type: Article

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