Keeping track of time: A Smartphone-based analysis of travel time perception in a suburban environment

Travel Behaviour and Society

Volumn 9, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-9

  Delclòs Alió, Xavier ^a   Marquet, Oriol ^b   Miralles Guasch, Carme ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barcelona; Perception; Smartphone tracking; Travel survey; Travel time

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024127361     PISSN: 2214367X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2017.07.001     Document Type: Article

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