Efficiency of urban public transit: A meta analysis

Transportation

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-21

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

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Meta analysis; Urban transit

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HUMANITIES COMPUTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NON-PARAMETRIC STUDIES; PUBLIC TRANSIT EFFICIENCY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

TRANSPORTATION;

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; META-ANALYSIS; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 11244299454     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-004-0939-4     Document Type: Review

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