Accessibility tradeoffs in public transit planning

Journal of Geographical Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-107

  Murray, Alan T ^a   Wu, Xiaolan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Location allocation models; Spatial coverage; Transportation

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; LOCATION-ALLOCATION MODEL; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

COLUMBUS; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037790559     PISSN: 14355930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101090300105     Document Type: Article

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