Urban form and travel behavior: Experience from a Nordic context

Journal of Transport and Land Use

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 21-45

  Næss, Petter ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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DOI: 10.5198/jtlu.v5i2.314     Document Type: Article

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