AMELIA: A tool to make transport policies more socially inclusive

Transport Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 372-378

  Mackett, Roger L ^a   Achuthan, Kamalasudhan ^a   Titheridge, Helena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Social exclusion; Social inclusion; Transport policy

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL INCLUSION; SOFTWARE; TRANSPORTATION POLICY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; HERTFORDSHIRE; SAINT ALBANS; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 63449128412     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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