Public Perception of Driverless Trains

Urban Rail Transit

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 78-86

  Fraszczyk, Anna ^a   Brown, Philip ^a   Duan, Suyi ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Automation; Driverless train; Metro

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015425331     PISSN: 21996687     EISSN: 21996679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40864-015-0019-4     Document Type: Article

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