What Really Matters for Increasing Transit Ridership: Understanding the Determinants of Transit Ridership Demand in Broward County, Florida

Urban Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 3327-3345

  Thompson, Gregory ^a   Brown, Jeffrey ^a   Bhattacharya, Torsha ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; URBAN AREA;

BROWARD COUNTY; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867686761     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098012443864     Document Type: Article

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