Detangling the impacts of age, residential locations and household lifecycle in car usage and ownership in the Osaka metropolitan area, Japan

Journal of Zhejiang University: Science A

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 517-528

  Sun, Yi Lin ^a   Susilo, Yusak O ^b   Waygood, E Owen D ^c   Wang, Dian Hai ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Family lifecycle; Simultaneous equations model system; Structural change; Urban car travel

Indexed keywords

HOUSING;

DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; ESTIMATION RESULTS; FAMILY LIFECYCLE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATIONS; SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS MODEL; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; URBAN CAR TRAVEL;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84906048330     PISSN: 1673565X     EISSN: 18621775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A1300345     Document Type: Article

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