A one-model approach to congestion in data envelopment analysis
Socio-Economic Planning SciencesPublished 12 November 2002
W. W. Cooper, Honghui Deng, Zhimin Huang, Susan X. Li
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Abstract
Standard data envelopment analysis approaches to congestion require two models (Eur. J. Oper. Res. 132 (2001) 62). Here, we introduce a single model that can be used in place of such two-model approaches to evaluate congestion, identify its sources and estimate its levels.
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