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Original Scholarship - Empirical

Cycling infrastructures and equity: an examination of bike lanes and bike sharing system in Lisbon, Portugal

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Pages 729-743 | Received 30 Aug 2021, Accepted 21 May 2022, Published online: 22 Jun 2022

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