The impacts of environmental knowledge and attitudes on vehicle ownership and use

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 272-279

  Flamm, Bradley ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental attitudes; Environmental knowledge; Knowledge attitudes behavior; Vehicle ownership

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CRASHWORTHINESS; FUELS; VEHICLES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES; ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE; FUEL-EFFICIENT VEHICLES; KNOWLEDGE-ATTITUDES-BEHAVIOR; METROPOLITAN REGIONS; SACRAMENTO , CALIFORNIA; VEHICLE OWNERSHIP; VEHICLE-MILES TRAVELED;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUEL CONSUMPTION; OWNERSHIP;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SACRAMENTO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65049089036     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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