Walking short distances. The socioeconomic drivers for the use of proximity in everyday mobility in Barcelona

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 210-222

  Marquet, Oriol ^a   Miralles Guasch, Carme ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barcelona; Local travel; Proximity; Walking

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION;

AUTOMATIC INTERACTION DETECTION; BARCELONA; LOCAL TRAVEL; PRIVATE TRANSPORT; PROXIMITY; TIME SPACE CONSTRAINTS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WALKING;

PUBLIC POLICY;

MOBILITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; URBAN TRANSPORT; WALKING;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84910684477     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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