The impacts of climate change on national road and rail networks

Transport and Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 105-136

  Hooper, Elizabeth ^a   Chapman, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Impact; National; Rail; Road

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969217006     PISSN: 20449941     EISSN: 2044995X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S2044-9941(2012)0000002008     Document Type: Chapter

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