Residential self-selection, built environment, and travel behavior in the chinese context

Journal of Transport and Land Use

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 5-14

  Wang, Donggen ^a   Lin, Tao ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Built environment; Residential self selection; Travel attitude; Travel behavior; Urban China

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919387762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19387849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5198/jtlu.v7i3.486     Document Type: Article

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