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Discussion of a Sequential Link Approach to Evaluating Transportation Facility Adjustments*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

John O. Gerald*
Affiliation:
Transportation Economics, Economics Research Service

Extract

Dr. Johnson has presented a useful description of the process by which judgments are reached, with regard to impacts of transportation infrastructural changes. I will make only a few suggestions for your consideration that relate specifically to his paper, and then devote some comments to the nature of future changes in transportation likely to be most important in the South.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1976

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Footnotes

*

The views expressed here are not necessarily held by the Economics Research Service or the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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