Road pricing acceptance: Analysis of survey results for Kyoto and Taichung

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 172-187

  Jou, Rong Chang ^a   Hensher, David A ^b   Wu, Ping Hwa ^c   Fujii, Satoshi ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Transportation Department   (Taiwan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bivariate ordered probit model; Kyoto; RRoad pricing; Seemingly uncorrelated regression model; Taichung; Transportation demand management

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449111482     PISSN: 15568318     EISSN: 15568334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15568310902731061     Document Type: Article

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