Job accessibility and its impacts on commuting time of urban residents in Beijing: From a spatial mismatch perspective

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 457-467

  Liu, Zhilin ^a   Wang, Maojun ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing; Commuting time; Job accessibility; Spatial mismatch

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; CENSUS; COMMUTING; DATA SET; DECENTRALIZATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC MINORITY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LOW INCOME POPULATION; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENT POPULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION; WAGE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84861136842     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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