Railroad Economies of Scale, Scope, and Density Revisited
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1046-1469
DOI: 10.5399/osu/jtrf.48.2.2261