Impact of undesirable outputs on the productivity of US airports

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-259

  Pathomsiri, Somchai ^a   Haghani, Ali ^b   Dresner, Martin ^c   Windle, Robert J ^c  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Airport; Delays; Performance measurement; Production function; Productivity

Indexed keywords

DELAY; EFFICIENT FRONTIER; JOINT PRODUCTION; NONPARAMETRICS; OUTPUT DISTANCE FUNCTION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PRODUCTION FUNCTION; US AIRPORTS;

AIRPORTS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRPORT; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35648944849     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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