Transportation trends from a moral perspective: Value orientations, norms and reducing car use

New Transportation Research Progress

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 67-92

  de Groot, Judith I M ^a   Steg, Linda ^a   Dicke, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Norms; Policy acceptability; Reducing car use; Value orientations

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EID: 84879567833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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