A survey and optimization-based evaluation of development strategies for the air cargo industry

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 550-562

  Chang, Yu Hern ^a   Yeh, Chung Hsing ^b   Wang, Shih Yi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air cargo; Fuzzy numbers; Hierarchical pairwise comparison; Optimal weighting; Survey

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; FUZZY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

FUZZY NUMBERS; HIERARCHICAL PAIRWISE COMPARISON; OPTIMAL WEIGHTING;

CARGO HANDLING;

EID: 33846419187     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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