Estimating marginal external costs of transport in Delhi

Transport Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-37

  Sen, Akshaya Kumar ^a   Tiwari, Geetam ^b   Upadhyay, Vrajaindra ^b  

^a India Habitat Centre   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Marginal external accidents costs; Marginal external air pollution costs; Marginal external congestion costs; Marginal external costs; Marginal external noise costs; Urban transport pricing

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; NOISE; PRICE DYNAMICS; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TRANSACTION COST; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

ASIA; DELHI; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70450245214     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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