Are car users too lazy to walk? the relationship of distance thresholds for driving to the perceived effort of walking

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1926, 2005, Pages 206-211

  Loukopoulos, Peter ^a,b   Gärling, Tommy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; LAND USE; PUBLIC POLICY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION;

FREQUENT DRIVING; PHYSICAL EFFORT; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; SHORT AUTOMOBILE TRIPS;

PASSENGER CARS;

EID: 33645778815     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1926-24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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