Do people live in urban neighbourhoods because they do not like to travel? Analysing an alternative residential self-selection hypothesis

Travel Behaviour and Society

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 29-39

  De Vos, Jonas ^a   Witlox, Frank ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Residential self selection; Travel behaviour; Travel liking; Travel satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960193660     PISSN: 2214367X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2015.12.002     Document Type: Article

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