Sustainable urban transport in the developing world: Beyond megacities

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7784-7805

  Pojani, Dorina ^a   Stead, Dominic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Developing cities; Medium sized cities; Sustainable transport; Urban transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934324894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7067784     Document Type: Article

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