Freeway drivers' willingness-to-pay for a distance-based toll rate

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 549-559

  Jou, Rong Chang ^a   Chiou, Yu Chiun ^b   Chen, Ke Hong ^a   Tan, Hao I ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation method; Electronic toll collection; Spike model; Willing to pay

Indexed keywords

TOLL HIGHWAYS;

CONTINGENT VALUATION METHODS; ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION; ESTIMATION ERRORS; ESTIMATION RESULTS; PUBLIC HOLIDAYS; SPIKE MODELS; WILLING-TO-PAY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ECONOMICS;

CONTINGENT VALUATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; ROAD PRICING; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRAVEL DEMAND; TRAVEL TIME; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84855170445     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2011.11.012     Document Type: Article

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