Railway transportation and environmental efficiency in China

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 48, Issue , 2016, Pages 488-498

  Song, Malin ^a   Zhang, Guijun ^b   Zeng, Wuxiong ^c   Liu, Jianhua ^d   Fang, Kuangnan ^c  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MINNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DEA; Environmental efficiency; Panel beta regression; Railway transportation

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; RAILROAD ENGINEERING; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; TRANSPORTATION;

DEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLY; FIXED EFFECTS; HIGH - SPEED RAILWAYS; PANEL BETA REGRESSION; RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION; REGIONAL DISPARITIES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84938149830     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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