Selfishness and altruism in the distribution of travel time and income

Transportation

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1043-1061

  Tilahun, Nebiyou ^a   Levinson, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Choice experiment; Income distribution; Inequality; Preferences; Selfishness; Travel time distribution

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INEQUALITY; PREFERENCES; SELFISHNESS; TRAVEL TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

DIGITAL STORAGE; ECONOMICS; EXPERIMENTS;

TRAVEL TIME;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 84883133288     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-013-9456-7     Document Type: Article

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