Early birds, night owls, and tireless/recurring itinerants: An exploratory analysis of extreme transit behaviors in Beijing, China

Habitat International

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 223-232

  Long, Ying ^a   Liu, Xingjian ^b   Zhou, Jiangping ^c   Chai, Yanwei ^d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Big data; Extreme transit behavior; Public transit; Smart card data (SCD); Travel survey

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; URBAN PLANNING;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

AVES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84983656145     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2016.08.004     Document Type: Article

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