A Review of Different Benchmarking Methods in the Context of Regional Airports

Transport Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 379-395

  Merkert, Rico ^a   Odeck, James ^b   Brathen, Svein ^c   Pagliari, Romano ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c MOLDE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; BENCHMARKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS SECTION; PANEL DATA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84860139368     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2012.662707     Document Type: Review

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