Using ‘Mobility Environments' in Practice: Lessons from a Metropolitan Transit Corridor in Spain

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 553-572

  Soria Lara, Julio A ^a   Valenzuela Montes, Luis M ^b   Pinho, Paulo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

environment; land use; metropolitan; public transport; sustainable mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945451421     PISSN: 1523908X     EISSN: 15227200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2014.991779     Document Type: Article

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