The role of transport indicators to the improvement of local governance in Rio de Janeiro City: A contribution for the debate on sustainable future

Case Studies on Transport Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 415-420

  Santos, Andrea Souza ^a   Ribeiro, Suzana Kahn ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

CO2 emissions on transport; Governance; Sustainable development; Transport indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949627048     PISSN: 2213624X     EISSN: 22136258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cstp.2015.08.006     Document Type: Article

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