Guidelines on developing performance metrics for evaluating transportation sustainability

Research in Transportation Business and Management

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages 4-13

  Zheng, Jason ^a   Garrick, Norman W ^b   Atkinson Palombo, Carol ^b   McCahill, Chris ^b   Marshall, Wesley ^c  

^a Central Connecticut Regional Planning Agency   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c The University of Colorado Denver   (United States)

Author keywords

Indicators; Planning; Sustainability; Transportation policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878573967     PISSN: 22105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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