Dynamic performance assessment of bus transit with the multi-activity network structure

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 60, Issue , 2016, Pages 15-25

  Yu, Ming Miin ^a   Chen, Li Hsueh ^a   Hsiao, Bo ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bus transit; Dynamic data envelopment analysis; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Multi activity network data envelopment analysis; Undesirable output

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958614525     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2015.06.003     Document Type: Article

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