Road transport pricing: Motivation, objectives and design from an economic perspective

Pricing in Road Transport: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 6-26

  Verhoef, Erik ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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