Making accessibility analyses accessible: A tool to facilitate the public review of the effects of regional transportation plans on accessibility

Journal of Transport and Land Use

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 17-28

  Golub, Aaron ^a   Robinson, Glenn ^b   Nee, Brendan ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BlinkTag Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Regional transportation plan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881163726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19387849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5198/jtlu.v6i3.352     Document Type: Article

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