Compact development and VMT—Environmental determinism, self-selection, or some of both?

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 737-755

  Ewing, Reid ^a   Hamidi, Shima ^b   Grace, James B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Travel behavior; urban form; urban transportation

Indexed keywords

PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RESIDENT POPULATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; URBAN SOCIETY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

SALT LAKE CITY; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84978500159     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265813515594811     Document Type: Article

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