A note on scale economies in transport

Journal of Transport Economics and Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 309-315

  Oum, Tae Hoon ^a   Zhang, Yimin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMY OF SCALE; TRANSPORT ECONOMICS;

EID: 0031405050     PISSN: 00225258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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