Transition through subsystem innovation? The case of traffic management

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1249-1259

  Pel, B ^a   Boons, F A ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Critical systems thinking; System boundaries; Traffic management; Transition

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING; LINEAR PROJECTIONS; MOBILITY SYSTEMS; NETHERLANDS; POLITICAL DYNAMICS; SYSTEM BOUNDARY; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSITION;

SYSTEM THEORY;

MANAGEMENT;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INNOVATION; MOBILITY; OPTIMIZATION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 77956669320     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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