Promoting urban light rail transit in a compact city context: the case of Toyama City, Japan

ABSTRACTCities worldwide have introduced or revived light rail transit (LRT) to develop compact city strategies and help address environmental issues, such as increasing CO2 emissions or air pollution. Toyama is such a city that has addressed these issues by establishing a compact city rooted in tra...

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Main Authors: Hiroshi Ito, Nobuo Kawazoe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2022-12-01
Series:Regional Studies, Regional Science
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21681376.2022.2148556