Decoupling Urban Car Use and Metropolitan GDP Growth

Data for 1995 and 2005 on forty-two cities in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia suggest that car use as well as total motorised mobility have decoupled from real growth in metropolitan GDPs. The car vehicle kilometres travelled per unit of GDP in thirty-nine out of the forty-two cities stu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kenworthy, Jeff
Format: Journal Article
Published: Eco-Logica Ltd 2013
Online Access:http://www.eco-logica.co.uk/pdf/wtpp19.4.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47329