Making Tracks: Rail Networks in World Cities

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1409-1431

  Niedzielski, Michael A ^a   Malecki, Edward J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

network; rail; transit; world cities

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WORLD CITY;

EID: 84866253037     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.601212     Document Type: Article

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