Scale economies in United States rail transit systems

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 459-473

  Savage, Ian ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; FUNCTIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT; MASS TRANSPORTATION; SUBWAYS;

THREE STAGED LEAST SQUARES TRANSLOG COST FUNCTION;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

COST FUNCTION; ECONOMY OF SCALE; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT ECONOMICS;

USA;

EID: 0031277565     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(97)00003-7     Document Type: Article

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