Policy implications and analysis of the determinants of travel mode choice: An application of choice experiments to metropolitan Costa Rica

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 603-619

  Alpizar, Francisco ^a   Carlsson, Fredrik ^b  

^a CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 4544375513     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X03000329     Document Type: Article

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