Economics of scale and scope in local public transportation

Journal of Transport Economics and Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 345-361

  Farsi, Mehdi ^a   Fetz, Aurelio ^a   Filippini, Massimo ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMY OF SCALE; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; RETURNS TO SCALE; SERVICE PROVISION; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 35448950919     PISSN: 00225258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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