Urban Innovations and Best Practices: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Transport
Asian Development Bank | October 2009
Abstract
Recent decades have witnessed an increasing number of attempts to manage developing cities’ sustainability. Transport action is widely recognized as central to these endeavors. Huge resources and vast efforts have been invested in urban transport but successes have been limited.
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Asian Development Bank. 2009. Urban Innovations and Best Practices: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Transport. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2776. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Bus Transportation Costs
Demand For Transport
Means Of Transport
National Transport
Passenger Transport
Road & Highway Transport
Road Transportation Systems
Sea Transport
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