The prisoners' dilemma and city-centre traffic

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 70-89

  Joshi, Mary Sissons ^a   Joshi, Vijay ^b   Lamb, Roger ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAR USE; PRISONER DILEMMA; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; OXFORD; OXFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 14644406835     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpi006     Document Type: Article

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