Crowdsourcing as a Social Interaction Tool to Stimulate Sustainable Transportation Mode Use

Social Network Analysis of Sustainable Transportation Organizations

ii Acknowledgements The research team would like to acknowledge Dr. Tao Sun of the department of Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont for his significant contribution helping to design this project, build the survey, analyze the data, and co-author academic papers on the findings. We also want to thank University of Vermont professor Curt Ventriss of the Rube...

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