Lessons from the tendering of railway services in Sweden. ARE some contracts better than others?

International Journal of Transport Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-90

  Nilsson, Jan Eric ^a   Jonsson, Lina ^b  

^a Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute ^*  (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contract design; Cost control; Railways; Tendering

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESIGN; LEGAL SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; RAILWAY TRANSPORT;

SWEDEN;

EID: 79953189696     PISSN: 03918440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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