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Europe: A Heterogenous ‘Single Market’

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A Billion Trips a Day

Part of the book series: Transportation Research, Economics and Policy ((TRES))

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What makes Europe unique in comparison to the United States of America and to Japan, is its diversity. Many different languages are spoken; many forms of spatial organizations (centralized and federated forms), different levels of economic development and different cultures.

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  1. Piet H. L. Bovy
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  2. Jean-Pierre Orfeuil
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  3. Dirk Zumkeller
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  1. Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    Ilan Salomon

  2. Transportation and Traffic Research Department, Ministry of Transport and Public Works, The Netherlands

    Piet Bovy

  3. INRETS, France

    Jean-Pierre Orfeuil

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Bovy, P.H.L., Orfeuil, JP., Zumkeller, D. (1993). Europe: A Heterogenous ‘Single Market’. In: Salomon, I., Bovy, P., Orfeuil, JP. (eds) A Billion Trips a Day. Transportation Research, Economics and Policy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8118-9_3

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