High-speed rail with emerging automobiles and aircraft can reduce environmental impacts in Californias future

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Chester, Mikhail ^a   Horvath, Arpad ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

greenhouse gas; high speed rail; life cycle assessment; transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864398787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034012     Document Type: Article

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