Sustainable freight transport in South Africa:Domestic intermodal solutions
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1995-5235,2310-8789
DOI: 10.4102/jtscm.v5i1.26