Cars and socio-economics: Understanding neighbourhood variations in car characteristics from administrative data

Regional Studies, Regional Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 264-285

  Lansley, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Car ownership; Cars; Population; Segmentation; Socio economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971441134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21681376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1177466     Document Type: Article

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