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Excess Commuting in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

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Network Infrastructure and the Urban Environment

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Most social scientists in U.S. universities (not to mention federal, state and local government agencies) believe that workers in U.S. metropolitan areas make excessive use of cars for commuting.

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  1. Real Estate and Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    Edwin S. Mills

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  1. Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Division of Transport and Location Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lars Lundqvist  & Lars-Göran Mattsson  & 

  2. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 111 Temple Buell Hall 611 E. Lorado Taft Dr., Champaign, IL, 61820, USA

    Tschangho John Kim

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Mills, E.S. (1998). Excess Commuting in U.S. Metropolitan Areas. In: Lundqvist, L., Mattsson, LG., Kim, T.J. (eds) Network Infrastructure and the Urban Environment. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72242-4_4

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