Accessibility and public service provision: Evaluating the impacts of the Post Office Network Change Programme in the UK

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 585-601

  Langford, Mitchel ^a   Higgs, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; GIS; Post offices; Public service provision; Wales

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; GIS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PLANNING SYSTEM; PUBLIC SERVICE; SERVICE PROVISION; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL POLICY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 78650452322     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00394.x     Document Type: Article

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