Minnesota pay-as-you-drive pricing experiment

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2079, 2008, Pages 8-14

  Abou Zeid, Maya ^a   Ben Akiva, Moshe ^a   Tierney, Kevin ^b   Buckeye, Kenneth R ^c   Buxbaum, Jeffrey N ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CAMBRIDGE SYSTEMATICS INC   (United States)

^c MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

% REDUCTIONS; CONTROL GROUPS; FIXED COST; MINNESOTA; MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONS; PRICING EXPERIMENTS; TREATMENT GROUP; VARIABLE COSTS; VEHICLE OPERATIONS; VEHICLE OWNERSHIP;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 61349154216     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2079-02     Document Type: Article

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