Productivity, efficiency and technical change in the European railways: A non-parametric approach

Transportation

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 337-357

  Cantos, Pedro ^a   Pastor, José M ^a   Serrano, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Malmquist index; Productivity; Railways; Technical change

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; EFFICIENCY; PRODUCTIVITY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; URBAN PLANNING;

NON-PARAMETRIC METHODS;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

METHODOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033386743     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005127513206     Document Type: Article

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