User economies of scale: bus subsidy in Adelaide

Economic Record

Volumn 73, Issue 223, 1997, Pages 329-347

  Tisato, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUS TRANSPORT; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; TRANSPORT ECONOMICS; TRANSPORT SUBIDY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

ADELAIDE; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031401018     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1997.tb01006.x     Document Type: Article

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