New evidence on walking distances to transit stops: Identifying redundancies and gaps using variable service areas

Transportation

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 193-210

  El Geneidy, Ahmed ^a   Grimsrud, Michael ^a   Wasfi, Rania ^a   Tétreault, Paul ^b   Surprenant Legault, Julien ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WSP   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility to transit; Gaps in transit service; Redundancy in transit service; Service area; Transit stops; Walking distance

Indexed keywords

BUS TRANSPORTATION;

ACCESSIBILITY TO TRANSIT; BUS TRANSIT SERVICE; DEFINITION OF SERVICE; METROPOLITAN REGIONS; SERVICE AREA; STATISTICAL MODELING; TRANSIT SERVICES; WALKING DISTANCE;

REDUNDANCY;

METROPOLITAN AREA; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; SERVICE PROVISION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; URBAN TRANSPORT; WALKING;

CANADA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84890866431     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-013-9508-z     Document Type: Article

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