Using circular statistics to explore the geography of the journey to work

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-132

  Corcoran, Jonathan ^a   Chhetri, Prem ^b   Stimson, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Circular statistics; Flow mapping; Geographic information system; Journey to work

Indexed keywords

GIS; JOURNEY TO WORK; MAPPING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 68849087541     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2008.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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