Walking frequency, cars, dogs, and the built environment

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 741-754

  Sehatzadeh, Bahareh ^a   Noland, Robert B ^a   Weiner, Marc D ^b  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^b State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Car ownership; Two stage least squares; Walking

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; TRANSPORTATION;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CAR OWNERSHIP; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; ORDERED PROBIT MODEL; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES; TWO STAGE LEAST SQUARES; WALKING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CAR OWNERSHIP; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WALKING;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 79960697730     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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