A GIS toolkit for exploring geographies of household activity/travel behavior

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-51

  Buliung, Ronald N ^a   Kanaroglou, Pavlos S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activity travel behavior; Geographic information systems; Households; Object orientation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; GIS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 30944458796     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2004.10.008     Document Type: Article

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