Affordability and subsidies in public urban transport: What do we mean, what can be done?

Transport Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 715-739

  Serebrisky, Tomás ^a   Gómez Lobo, Andrés ^b   Estupiñán, Nicolás ^c   Muñoz Raskin, Ramón ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c Infrastructure Division   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; URBAN TRANSPORT; WELFARE IMPACT;

EID: 70449120605     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441640902786415     Document Type: Article

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