Inefficiencies and scale economies of European airport operations

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 341-361

  Pels, Eric ^a   Nijkamp, Peter ^a   Rietveld, Piet ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Airports; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRPORTS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AIR PASSENGERS; AIR TRANSPORT MOVEMENTS; AIRPORT OPERATIONS; CONSTANT RETURN TO SCALE; EUROPEAN AIRPORTS; LOAD FACTORS; LOW LOAD; PASSENGER MOVEMENTS; SCALE ECONOMIES; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER;

EFFICIENCY;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRLINE INDUSTRY; AIRPORT; ECONOMY OF SCALE; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EUROPE;

EID: 0042163173     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-5545(03)00016-4     Document Type: Article

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