Bicycle commuting market analysis using attitudinal market segmentation approach

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 56-68

  Li, Zhibin ^a,b   Wang, Wei ^a   Yang, Chen ^c   Ragland, David R ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

^c Shanghai City Comprehensive Transportation Planning Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Attitude; Bicycle; Commuting; Market segmentation; Policy

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; PUBLIC POLICY; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

ATTITUDE; ATTITUDINAL CHARACTERISTIC; COMMUTING; ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS; MARKET SEGMENTATION; MARKET SEGMENTATION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

BICYCLES;

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; COMMUTING; CYCLE TRANSPORT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MARKETING; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84870680964     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2012.10.017     Document Type: Article

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