On the income elasticity of the value of travel time

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 368-377

  Börjesson, Maria ^a   Fosgerau, Mogens ^b   Algers, Staffan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CBA; Cross section income elasticity; Income elasticity; Inter temporal income elasticity; Temporal transferability; Value of travel time

Indexed keywords

TRAVEL TIME;

INCOME ELASTICITIES; STATED CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; TEMPORAL TRANSFERABILITY; TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE; TRAVEL TIME SAVINGS; VALUE OF TIME;

ELASTICITY;

CROSS SECTION; INCOME; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 81155138363     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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