Jobs-housing imbalance, spatial correlation, and excess commuting

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 322-336

  Suzuki, Tsutomu ^a   Lee, Sohee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Commuting efficiency; Excess commuting; Jobs housing balance; Spatial correlation; Urban structure

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; TRANSPORTATION;

CAPACITY UTILIZATION; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; EXCESS COMMUTING; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; URBAN STRUCTURE; ZONAL MODEL;

HOUSING;

COMMUTING; CORRELATION; HOUSING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN REGION;

JAPAN; KOREA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81055136673     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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