Road freight privatisation in Egypt: Is big beautiful?

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-41

  Gray, Richard ^a   Fattah, Nabil A ^b   Cullinane, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Transp Plng Dept   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Privatisation; Road freight

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC LIBERALISATION; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; PRIVATISATION; ROAD FREIGHT;

EGYPT;

EID: 0031868740     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0966-6923(97)00028-8     Document Type: Article

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