The multimodal majority? Driving, walking, cycling, and public transportation use among American adults

Transportation

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1081-1101

  Buehler, Ralph ^a   Hamre, Andrea ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual travel behavior; Multimodal and monomodal car users; Multimodality; Trends 2001 2009; USA; Walk, bicycle, and public transportation only users

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; BICYCLES; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MULTI-MODAL; MULTI-MODALITY; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIORS; USA;

MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION;

CAR USE; CYCLE TRANSPORT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; WALKING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84944170496     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-014-9556-z     Document Type: Article

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