Urban mobility experiments in India and Thailand

The Experimental City

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 122-136

  Ghosh, Duke ^a   Sengers, Frans ^b   Wieczorek, Anna J ^c   Ghosh, Bipashyee ^d   Roy, Joyashree ^e   Raven, Rob ^b  

^a Global Change Research   (India)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 85031719271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315719825-9     Document Type: Chapter

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