Children in a rail-based developed area of Japan: Travel patterns, independence, and exercise

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2125, 2009, Pages 36-43

  Waygood, E Owen D ^a   Kitamura, Ryuichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NEIGHBOURHOOD; POPULATION DENSITIES; SOCIAL COHESION; TRAIN STATIONS; TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT; TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR; TRAVEL PATTERNS;

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EID: 76149101290     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2125-05     Document Type: Article

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