Decision-making for light rail

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 349-359

  De Bruijn, Hans ^a   Veeneman, Wijnand ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision making; Light rail; Multi actor context; Public transport; Strategies

Indexed keywords

TRAFFIC CONGESTION; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

LIGHT RAIL; MOBILITY PATTERN; MULTI ACTORS; NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS; POLICY MAKERS; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; STRATEGIES;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 61549116247     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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