Built environment effects on leisure travel for children: Trip generation and travel mode

Transport Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 246-258

  Lin, Jen Jia ^a   Yu, Tzu Pen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Built environment; Child; Leisure travel; Multinomial logit model; Negative binomial regression model

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; STUDENT; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL DEMAND; URBAN PLANNING;

TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

EID: 78349311397     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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