Modelling self-drive tourist travel patterns in desert Australia

32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum, ATRF 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Holyoak, Nicholas ^a   Carson, Dean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Tourism; Traffic assignment; VRUM

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DESTINATION LOCATION; LOCAL ECONOMY; REMOTE REGIONS; ROAD NETWORK; SCENARIO MODELLING; STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS; TOURISM; TRAFFIC ASSIGNMENT; TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR; TRAVEL PATTERNS; VRUM;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84866542727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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