Forty years of modelling rapid transit’s land value uplift in North America: moving beyond the tip of the iceberg

Transport Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 610-634

  Higgins, Christopher D ^a   Kanaroglou, Pavlos S ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

accessibility; hedonic model; land value capture; Land value uplift; rapid transit; self selection; transit oriented development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964499581     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2016.1174748     Document Type: Article

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