Infrastructure and automobile shifts: positioning transit to reduce life-cycle environmental impacts for urban sustainability goals

Public transportation systems are often part of strategies to reduce urban environmental impacts from passenger transportation, yet comprehensive energy and environmental life-cycle measures, including upfront infrastructure effects and indirect and supply chain processes, are rarely considered. Usi...

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Main Authors: Mikhail Chester, Stephanie Pincetl, Zoe Elizabeth, William Eisenstein, Juan Matute
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015041