Self-financing roads

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

Volumn 3, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 293-311

  Verhoef, Erik T ^a   Mohring, Herbert ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Road capacity choice; Road financing; Road pricing; Traffic congestion

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449569409     PISSN: 15568318     EISSN: 15568334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15568310802259940     Document Type: Article

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