Service unreliability and bus subsidy

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 32A, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 423-436

  Tisato, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Transport SA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SUBSIDY PROVISION; TRANSPORT PERFORMANCE;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC UTILITIES;

OPTIMAL SUBSIDY;

BUS TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0031597052     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(98)00006-8     Document Type: Article

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