Promoting active transportation modes in school trips

Transport Policy

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 203-211

  Ermagun, Alireza ^a   Samimi, Amir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Mode choice; Policy; School trip; Tehran; Three level nested logit

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; STUDENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; URBAN TRANSPORT; WALKING;

IRAN; TEHRAN [IRAN]; TEHRAN [TEHRAN (PRV)];

EID: 84911892788     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.10.013     Document Type: Article

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