Sustainable urban transportation: abatement and control of traffic congestion and vehicular emissions from land transportation in Singapore

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 355-380

  Chin, Anthony T H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Command and control measures; Pricing; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960066591     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03354046     Document Type: Article

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