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On the Measurement and Monitoring of Relative Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Patrols

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This chapter describes the application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) tools to the measurement of relative efficiency of highway maintenance patrols in Ontario, Canada. The system has evolved as a result of a two-year study carried out for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, with the purpose of implementing it on a provincewide basis.

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Cook, W.D., Kazakov, A., Roll, Y. (1994). On the Measurement and Monitoring of Relative Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Patrols. In: Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Applications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0637-5_10

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0637-5_10

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