New insights into senior travel behavior: The Canadian experience

Growth and Change

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 140-168

  Scott, Darren M ^a   Newbold, Kenneth Bruce ^a   Spinney, Jamie E L ^a   Mercado, Ruben ^a   Páez, Aantonio ^a   Kanaroglou, Pavlos S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 61549093978     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2008.00464.x     Document Type: Article

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