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marginal operating cost [1 record]

Record 1 2015-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Econometrics
CONT

... in calculating the operating costs of a new highway, marginal operating costs saved on alternative routes due to reduced traffic should be subtracted. Since operating costs can be expected to rise less than proportionately with the flow of traffic per unit of time, marginal operating costs will be lower than average operating costs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Économétrie

Spanish

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