The Diversity of Megacities Worldwide: Challenges for the Future of Mobility

Lecture Notes in Mobility

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-54

  Priester, Roland ^a   Kenworthy, Jeffrey ^b   Wulfhorst, Gebhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Private Transport; Public Transport; Public Transport System; Road Infrastructure; Transport Infrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019084881     PISSN: 21965544     EISSN: 21965552     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34735-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

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