Promoting public transport as a subscription service: Effects of a free month travel card

Transport Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 335-343

  Thøgersen, John ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Car use habits; Economic incentive; Field experiment; Public transport

Indexed keywords

CAR OWNERSHIP; CAR USE; COMMUTING; FIELDWORK; INCENTIVE; PUBLIC TRANSPORT;

EID: 70450245257     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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