Adverse Weather and Commuting Speed

Networks and Spatial Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 701-712

  Sabir, Muhammad ^a   van Ommeren, Jos ^a,b   Koetse, Mark ^a   Rietveld, Piet ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Car commuting trips; Empirical analysis; Speed; Travel time; Weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255209394     PISSN: 1566113X     EISSN: 15729427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11067-010-9130-y     Document Type: Article

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