Behavioural responses to vehicle emissions charging

Transportation

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 445-463

  Beck, Matthew J ^a   Rose, John M ^a   Hensher, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Charging; Congestion; Environment; Pollution; Road pricing; Stated choice experiment; Vehicle emissions; Vehicle purchasing

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; CHARGING; CONGESTION; ENVIRONMENT; ROAD PRICING; STATED CHOICE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

COSTS; ECONOMICS; EXPERIMENTS; POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; SALES; TAXATION; TRANSPORTATION CHARGES; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES; VEHICLES;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSION; ROAD PRICING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79954577230     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-010-9316-7     Document Type: Article

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