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Gender, Residential Location, and Household Travel: Empirical Findings from Low‐income Urban Settlements in Durban, South Africa

Christoffel Venter Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Vera Vokolkova Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
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Jaroslav Michalek Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Masaryk University of Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
Pages 653-677 | Received 03 Feb 2006, Accepted 09 Aug 2006, Published online: 16 Oct 2007

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