Neighborhood design, neighborhood location, and three types of walking: Results from the Washington DC area

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 526-540

  Cho, Gi Hyoug ^a   Rodríguez, Daniel A ^b  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Travel behavior; Walkability

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SUBURBAN AREA; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; URBAN DESIGN; WALKING;

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA];

EID: 84929334246     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b130222p     Document Type: Article

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