Do people consider an acceptable travel time? Evidence from Berkeley, CA

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 76-86

  Milakis, Dimitris ^a,b   Cervero, Robert ^a   van Wee, Bert ^b   Maat, Kees ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acceptable travel time; Derived utility; Intrinsic utility

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL TIME;

BERKELEY; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926500333     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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