Revenue management saves National Car Rental

Interfaces

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 107-127

  Geraghty, M K ^a   Johnson, Ernest ^b  

^a National Car Rental ^*  (United States)

^b National Car Rental   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Industries; Transportation shipping decision analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012468366     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.27.1.107     Document Type: Article

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