Testing for the distributional effects of national road user charging

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-38

  Graham, Daniel J ^a   Glaister, Stephen ^a   Quddus, Mohammed ^b   Wadud, Zia ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Income; Pricing; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449644214     PISSN: 15568318     EISSN: 15568334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15568310701345386     Document Type: Article

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