Intermodal versus unimodal road freight transport: A review of comparisons of the external costs

Towards better Performing Transport Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 17-42

  Kreutzberger, Ekki ^a   Macharis, Cathy ^b   Woxenius, Johan ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environmental performance; external costs; Intermodal freight transport; Internalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909318370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203965573     Document Type: Chapter

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