Information, communication, travel behavior and accessibility

Journal of Transport and Land Use

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1-16

  van Wee, Bert ^a   Geurs, Karst ^b   Chorus, Caspar ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accessibility; ICT; Travel behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888120519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19387849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5198/jtlu.v6i3.282     Document Type: Article

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