The politico-economic link between public transport and road pricing: An ex-ante study of the Stockholm road-pricing trial

Transport Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 162-172

  Armelius, Hanna ^a   Hultkrantz, Lars ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Congestion charges; Distributional effects; Modal choice; Road tolls

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; ROAD PRICING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN;

EID: 33644620779     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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