Sustainable passenger transport: Back to Brundtland

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 67-77

  Holden, Erling ^a,b   Linnerud, Kristin ^c   Banister, David ^d  

^a WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Sustainable development; Sustainable passenger transport; Sustainable transport indicators; The brundtland report

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; TRANSPORTATION;

ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY; GLOBAL CHALLENGES; INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY; PASSENGER TRANSPORT; PROJECT LEVELS; REGIONAL LEVELS; SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT; THE BRUNDTLAND REPORT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; PLANNING PROCESS; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 84883001685     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2013.07.012     Document Type: Article

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