A comprehensive analysis of built environment characteristics on household residential choice and auto ownership levels

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 506-526

  Bhat, Chandra R ^a   Guo, Jessica Y ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto ownership; Built environment; Integrated land use transportation modeling; Residential sorting; Self selection

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTIC; INTEGRATED LAND USE; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT-ORDERED RESPONSE STRUCTURE; TRANSPORTATION MODELING;

LAND USE;

CAR OWNERSHIP; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LAND USE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL DEMAND;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846361774     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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