Understanding and promoting bicycle use – insights from psychological research

Transport and Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 219-246

  Bamberg, Sebastian ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Habit; Individual decision making; Interventions; Norms; Theory of planned behaviour; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967166441     PISSN: 20449941     EISSN: 2044995X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S2044-9941(2012)0000001011     Document Type: Chapter

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