Towards a generic sustainable urban transport strategy for middle-sized cities in Asia: Lessons from Ningbo, Kanpur and Solo

Habitat International

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1082-1099

  Dimitriou, Harry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic development; Environmental impacts of urban transport; Medium sized cities; Megatrends of Asia; Motorization; Urban transport strategy formulation; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

POLICY DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM; URBAN TRANSPORT; URBANIZATION; WORLD BANK;

ASIA; CENTRAL JAVA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIA; INDONESIA; KANPUR; NINGBO; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SURAKARTA; UTTAR PRADESH; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 33750032939     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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