Population ageing, gender and the transportation system

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-47

  Li, He ^a   Raeside, Robert ^a   Chen, Tao ^a   McQuaid, Ronald W ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Bus use; Gender; Road traffic casualties; Travel patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856761656     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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