Distance-decay functions of travel to work trips in India.
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SUBMITTER: Goel R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6187020 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
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In 2011, for the first time, Census in India reported travel distance and mode of travel for the workers. The distance reported is in the form of aggregate counts for each mode of travel in 7 distance bins (0-1 km, 2-5 km, 6-10 km, 11-20 km, 21-30 km, 31-50 km, and >50 km). In this data article, methods are described to model categorical count data as distance-decay functions using continuous probability distributions. The distributions have been developed for 8 categories of modes-walk, cycle, ...[more]
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