Taxi! Urban economies and the social and transport impacts of the taxicab

Taxi! Urban Economies and the Social and Transport Impacts of the Taxicab

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-185

  Cooper, James ^a,b   Mundy, Ray ^c,d   Nelson, John ^e  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Transport Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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