The built environment, travel attitude, and travel behavior: Residential self-selection or residential determination?

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 65, Issue , 2017, Pages 111-122

  Lin, Tao ^a   Wang, Donggen ^a   Guan, Xiaodong ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Natural experiment; Residential determination; Residential self selection; The built environment; Travel attitude

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RESIDENT POPULATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 85033434693     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.10.004     Document Type: Article

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