Equity of urban service delivery: A comparison of different accessibility measures

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1613-1635

  Neutens, Tijs ^a   Schwanen, Tim ^b   Witlox, Frank ^a   de Maeyer, Philippe ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; EQUITY; PUBLIC SERVICE; URBAN SERVICE;

EID: 77956084250     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a4230     Document Type: Article

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