Public attitudes towards policy measures for reducing private car use: Evidence from a study in Sweden

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-66

  Loukopoulos, Peter ^a   Jakobsson, Cecilia ^a   Gärling, Tommy ^a   Schneider, Claudia M ^b   Fujii, Satoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Beliefs; Coerciveness; Evaluations; Travel demand management

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CAR DRIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA;

EID: 10944249577     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2004.07.008     Document Type: Article

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