Using DEA to identify and manage congestion

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 207-226

  Brockett, Patrick L ^a   Cooper, William W ^a   Deng, Honghui ^b   Golden, Linda L ^a   Ruefli, T W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Inefficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044439985     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-004-7574-0     Document Type: Article

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