The climate change-road safety-economy nexus: A system dynamics approach to understanding complex interdependencies

Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Alirezaei, Mehdi ^a   Onat, Nuri C ^b   Tatari, Omer ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL SEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Climate change; Policy analysis; Road safety; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019167037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20798954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/systems5010006     Document Type: Article

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