Evaluation of the relevance measure between ports and regional economy using structural equation modeling

Transport Policy

Volumn 27, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-133

  Deng, Ping ^a   Lu, Shiqing ^a,b   Xiao, Hanbin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical analysis; Port cluster; Regional economy; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; PORT; REGIONAL ECONOMY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84874768558     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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