Household excess travel and neighbourhood characteristics: Associations and trade-offs

Urban Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1235-1253

  Fan, Yingling ^a   Khattak, Asad ^b   Rodríguez, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMENITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NEIGHBORHOOD; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955438105     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098010369712     Document Type: Article

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