Measuring urban job accessibility with distance decay, competition and diversity

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 30, Issue , 2013, Pages 100-109

  Cheng, Jianquan ^a   Bertolini, Luca ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amsterdam; Competition; Distance decay; Diversity; GIS; Job accessibility

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; GIS; JOURNEY TO WORK; LAND USE PLANNING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPATIAL PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; URBAN TRANSPORT;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND;

EID: 84876734206     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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