Transit traffic route selection - A comparison of the transit routes to Russia from a company viewpoint

World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 264-278

  Märkälä, Maija ^a   Jumpponen, Jari ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

AHP; Analytic hierarchy process; Finland; Route selection; Russia; The Baltic states; Transit traffic; Transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 66949120381     PISSN: 17494729     EISSN: 17494737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/WRITR.2009.026207     Document Type: Article

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