The value of public rights of way: A choice experiment in Bedfordshire, England

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-91

  Morris, Joe ^a   Colombo, Sergio ^b   Angus, Andrew ^a   Stacey, Kitty ^a   Parsons, David ^a   Brawn, Martyn ^c   Hanley, Nick ^d  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IFAPA CENTRO EL TORUÑO   (Spain)

^c Bedfordshire County Council   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Public access; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

RIGHTS OF WAY; TAXATION; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; GENERAL APPLICATIONS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES; OPERATIONAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC ACCESS; PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAYS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ECONOMICS;

FISCAL POLICY; HUMAN RIGHTS; LAND USE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PUBLIC ACCESS; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; SURVEYING; TAX SYSTEM; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

BEDFORDSHIRE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 69949151821     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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