Insights into public transit use by Millennials: The Canadian experience

Travel Behaviour and Society

Volumn 11, Issue , 2018, Pages 62-68

  Newbold, K Bruce ^a   Scott, Darren M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automobility; Canada; Generations; Millennials; Public transit

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044667802     PISSN: 2214367X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2017.12.009     Document Type: Article

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