Developing an Indicator System for Measuring Taiwan's Transport Sustainability

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 81-92

  Shiau, Tzay An ^a   Huang, Min Wei ^a   Lin, Wen Ya ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Indicator system; rough sets theory (RST); transport sustainability; two stage principal component analysis (TSPCA)

Indexed keywords

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ROUGH SET THEORY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

HISTORICAL DATA; INDICATOR SYSTEM; KEY INDICATOR; TWO-STAGE PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (TSPCA);

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PLANNING METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84907354094     PISSN: 15568318     EISSN: 15568334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2012.738775     Document Type: Article

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