Valuing Public Investments to Support Bicycling
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Valuing Public Investments to Support Bicycling
ing from leisure trips that serve no purpose of transportation, getting from A to B conveys disutility to people in the form of money, time, effort, fear of accidents and other costs, the sum of which are usually referred to as generalized costs. In the context of bicycling, the generalized costs are almost exclusively nonmonetary and thus internal to cyclists. The existence of internal costs f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2235-6282
DOI: 10.1007/bf03399409