Sustainable transportation: An overview, framework and further research directions

International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 695-718

  Dubey, Rameshwar ^a   Gunasekaran, Angappa ^b  

^a Punjab Agricultural University   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

clean energy; construct validity; partial least square; PLS; SEM; structural equation modelling; sustainable transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946731558     PISSN: 17566517     EISSN: 17566525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSTL.2015.072678     Document Type: Review

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