A human perspective on the daily commute: Costs, benefits and trade-offs

Transport Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 181-198

  Lyons, Glenn ^a   Chatterjee, Kiron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TRADE-OFF; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39649096534     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441640701559484     Document Type: Article

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