The inefficiency of toll collection as a means of taxation: Evidence from the Garden State Parkway

Transportation Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 17-31

  Peters, Jonathan R ^a   Kramer, Jonathan K ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FUELS; MASS TRANSPORTATION; POLLUTION; TAXATION;

MASS TRANSIT; PRICING; TOLL COLLECTIONS;

TOLL HIGHWAYS;

EID: 0042822230     PISSN: 02789434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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