Metrics of urban form and the modifiable areal unit problem

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1902, 2005, Pages 71-79

  Zhang, Ming ^a   Kukadia, Nishant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; LAND USE; PLANNING; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NETWORK PATTERN; POPULATION DENSITY; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL ANALYSIS;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 27944438939     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1902-09     Document Type: Article

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