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Returns to Density in Operations of the Netherlands Railways

Pels, Eric; Daniel, Vanessa E.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Rail cost function analysis has been a popular topic in the (empirical) economics literature over the past decades. Most studies find increasing returns to density for rail companies. The results can, however, be quite diverse. Results for the Dutch National Railway company (NS), for instance,...

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Comparitive Performance Analysis of European Airports by Means of Extended Data Envelopment Analysis

Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Pels, Eric; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has become an established approach for analyzing and comparing efficiency results of corporate organizations or economic agents. It has also found wide application in comparative studies on airport efficiency. The standard DEA approach to comparative airport...

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Transportation, Communication and Sustainability : In Search of a Pathway to Comparative Research

Black, William R.; Nijkamp, Peter - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2004

This paper maps out recent trends in transportation, communication and mobility, against the background of the need for …

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Decision making for transportation systems as a support for sustainable stewardship : Freight transport process evaluation using the ETIENNE‐Tool

Guenther, Edeltraud; Greschner Farkavcová, Vera - In: Management Research Review 33 (2010) 4, pp. 317-339

Purpose – The environmental impacts of transportation are rarely brought into decision making frameworks. The purpose … paper shows that there is no practicable tool to consider environmental impacts in management decisions in transportation …. Therefore, a software tool, the so‐called ETIENNE‐Tool, for the evaluation of transportation alternatives, is developed …

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Building sustainability in logistics operations: a research agenda

Dey, Asoke; LaGuardia, Paul; Srinivasan, Mahesh - In: Management Research Review 34 (2011) 11, pp. 1237-1259

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the current state of sustainability efforts within the field of supply chain management, more specifically supply chain logistics operations, and to identify opportunities and provide recommendations for firms to follow sustainable operations....

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The Planning and Construction of a Regional Financial Center: Financial Structure

Zhong, Xiong; Chen, Shuanglian - In: Open House International 43 (2018) 1, pp. 83-87

The construction of regional financial center can gather a large amount of financial production elements and capital, which plays an important role in promoting regional economic development. Based on this, the analysis of the planning and design of regional financial center based on the...

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Mobility of the sight and hearing impaired: barriers and solutions identified

Fürst, Elmar W.M.; Vogelauer, Christian - In: Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 15 (2012) 4, pp. 369-384

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights on the most hindering barriers that sight and hearing impaired passengers face when using public transport services. Furthermore, possible convenient solutions to the identified problems shall be presented. To allow for an...

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Feasibility Assessment of Biomass Harvesting Cooperative

Basnet, Arjun; Kenkel, Philip L. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012

The paper summarizes the harvesting and transportation costs of biomass in an individual producer’s framework versus a …

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Modal composition of cargo transportation and income inequality in Brazil

Azzoni, Carlos Roberto; Guilhoto, Joaquim M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

of cargo transportation in Brazil. It was calibrated for year of 2004, and considers 31 sectors (4 of which are related … to cargo transportation: road, rail, water, and air), and 10 income brackets. A transfer of 10% of road transportation to … economy and the small importance of the transportation sector. Increases in the share of rail or water transportation will …

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The Granger-Causality between Transportation and GDP: A Panel Data Approach

Beyzatlar, Mehmet Aldonat; Karacal, Müge; Yetkiner, … - Ekonomi Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2012

This study investigates the Granger-causality relationship between real per capita GDP and transportation of EU-15 … when studying the relationship between transportation and income. Instances of one-way or no Granger-causality were found … and Italy. We speculate that bi-directional Granger causality between income and transportation is observed only after an …

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