Incorporating environmental factors into a highway maintenance cost model

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 363-384

  Rouse, Paul ^a   Putterill, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accountability; cost models; environmental studies; highways; maintenance; planning and control; transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041910140     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mare.2000.0133     Document Type: Article

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