Are returns to scale with variable network size adequate for transport industry structure analysis?

Transportation Science

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 259-268

  Basso, Leonardo J ^a   Jara Díaz, Sergio R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Multioutput cost functions; Returns to scale; Transport production; Transportation economics

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

MULTIOUTPUT COST FUNCTIONS; RETURNS TO SCALE; TRANSPORT PRODUCTION; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 33646737130     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1060.0154     Document Type: Article

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