The social dimension in action: A multilevel, personal networks model of social activity frequency between individuals

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-104

  Carrasco, Juan Antonio ^a   Miller, Eric J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activity travel behavior; ICT; Multilevel modeling; Social activities; Social networks

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACTIVITY-TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MULTI-LEVEL STRUCTURES; MULTILEVEL MODEL; NETWORK COMPOSITION; PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

ACTIVITY PATTERN; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MODELING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 55649111575     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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