Cost Benefit and Economic Impact Analysis for BRT in Sydney Australia

Weisbrod, Mulley and Hensher (2015). Recognising the complementary contributions of cost benefit analysis and economic impact analysis to an understanding of the worth of public transport investment: A case study of bus rapid transit in Sydney, Australia. Presented at the Thredbo Conference on Land Passenger Transport (Santiago, Chile) September, 2015.

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