The economics of railway safety

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 137-147

  Evans, Andrew W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accidents; Cost benefit analysis; Deregulation; Level crossings; Privatisation; Railways; Safety; Train protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878137682     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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