Performance based clustering for benchmarking of US airports

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 329-346

  Sarkis, Joseph ^a   Talluri, Srinivas ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Clustering; Data envelopment analysis; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; AIRPORT RUNWAYS; BENCHMARKING; CIVIL AVIATION; COSTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

AIR CARRIERS; AIRPORT EMPLOYEES; PASSENGER FLOWS;

AIRPORTS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRPORT; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2342646948     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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