Benchmarking global railway freight transportation efficiency during the period of 1980-2004

International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 311-328

  Hilmola, Olli Pekka ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis; DEA; efficiency; freight; railways; world

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953710378     PISSN: 17566517     EISSN: 17566525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSTL.2009.027678     Document Type: Article

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