The value of automobile travel time: Implications for congestion policy

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-102

  Calfee, John ^a   Winston, Clifford ^b  

^a AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion; R4; R41; Stated preference; Tolls; Value of time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006049926     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(97)00095-9     Document Type: Article

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