Sustainability measures of urban public transport in cities: A world review and focus on the Asia/Middle East Region

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  De Gruyter, Chris ^a   Currie, Graham ^a   Rose, Geoff ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asia; Cities; Middle East; Public transport; Sustainability; Transit; World review

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL INDICATOR; SUSTAINABILITY; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN AREA; URBAN TRANSPORT;

ASIA; EUROPE; LATIN AMERICA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 85011024442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9010043     Document Type: Article

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