Small regional airport sustainability: Lessons from benchmarking

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 22-31

  Adler, Nicole ^a   Ülkü, Tolga ^b   Yazhemsky, Ekaterina ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air transport; Airports; Benchmarking; Data envelopment analysis; Regional policy

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRPORT; BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84883463269     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2013.06.007     Document Type: Article

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