Potential Path Areas and Activity Spaces in Application: A Review

Transport Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 679-700

  Patterson, Zachary ^a   Farber, Steven ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

activity spaces; behavioural geography; potential path areas; space time geography; transport geography; travel behaviour

Indexed keywords

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84946494019     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2015.1042944     Document Type: Article

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