Exploring urban commuting imbalance by jobs and gender

Applied Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 532-545

  Kim, Changjoo ^a   Sang, Sunhee ^a   Chun, Yongwan ^b   Lee, Wook ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Commute; Disaggregate; Gender; Jobs; Journey to work; Spatial inequality

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; GENDER; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 79960691343     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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