Urban land uses, socio-demographic attributes and commuting: A multilevel modeling approach

Applied Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1010-1018

  Antipova, Anzhelika ^a   Wang, Fahui ^b,c   Wilmot, Chester ^d  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YUNNAN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^d Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual attributes; Journey to work; Land use; Multi level modeling

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; JOURNEY TO WORK; LAND USE; MODELING; NEIGHBORHOOD; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; URBAN AREA; URBAN TRANSPORT;

BATON ROUGE; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952352902     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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