An evaluation of the accessibility benefits of commuter rail in Eastern Massachusetts using spatial hedonic price functions

Transportation

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-43

  Armstrong, Robert J ^a   Rodríguez, Daniel A ^b  

^a VOLPE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Commuter Rail; Externalities; Hedonic Model; Spatial Econometrics

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACCESIBILITY BENEFITS; COMMUTER RAIL; MARKET VALUE;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

ACCESSIBILITY; COMMUTING; ECONOMETRICS; RAILWAY TRANSPORT;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31044439146     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/v05-264     Document Type: Article

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