Singapore's experience with car quotas: Issues and policy processes

Transport Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 145-153

  Phang, Sock Yong ^a   Wong, Wing Keung ^a   Chia, Ngee Choon ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Car ownership policies; Motor vehicle quotas; Singapore; Weekend cars

Indexed keywords

CAR OWNERSHIP; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; MOTOR VEHICLES; POLICY MAKING; QUOTA SYSTEM; TRANSPORT POLICY; VEHICLE QUOTA;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0030390268     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-070X(96)00025-X     Document Type: Article

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