Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), or multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) or both: Politicians' perspective in transport policy appraisal

Transportation Research Procedia

Volumn 10, Issue , 2015, Pages 788-797

  Annema, Jan Anne ^a   Mouter, Niek ^a   Razaei, Jafar ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cost benefit analysis; decision making; multi criteria decioson making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959359346     PISSN: 23521457     EISSN: 23521465     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2015.09.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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