How far out of the way will we travel? Built environment influences on route selection for bicycle and car travel

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2190, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Winters, Meghan ^a   Teschke, Kay ^a   Grant, Michael ^c   Setton, Eleanor M ^d   Brauer, Michael ^b  

^a School of Population and Public Health   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BC Transit   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

'CURRENT; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE; LEAST COST ROUTES; NON-MOTORIZED MODES; ROUTE SELECTION; SHORT-PATH; SHORTEST ROUTE; TRANSPORTATION: MODELS; TRAVEL DEMAND MODELS;

BICYCLES;

EID: 78650866873     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2190-01     Document Type: Article

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