Paying for transportation: What's a fair price?

Journal of Planning Literature

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-36

  Taylor, Brian D ^a   Norton, Alexandra Tassiello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Louisiana Recovery Authority   (United States)

Author keywords

Equity; Finance; Pricing; Transportation

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; INVESTMENT; PRICE DYNAMICS; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION POLICY;

EID: 74349116812     PISSN: 08854122     EISSN: 15526593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0885412209347156     Document Type: Article

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