Relationship between human capital and transportation sustainability for the United States and selected European countries

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2598, Issue , 2016, Pages 92-101

  Ahangari, Hamed ^a   Garrick, Norman W ^a   Atkinson Palombo, Carol ^b  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE INDEX; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN CAPITALS; HUMAN TRANSPORTATION; PANEL DATA MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL FACTOR; SUSTAINABILITY INDEX; TRANSPORTATION SUSTAINABILITY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85015358941     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2598-11     Document Type: Article

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