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The aim of this chapter is to apply an extended DEA model emerging from a blend of a Stepwise Improvement-distance friction minimization (DFM) model and a Fixed-Factor (FF) model, for generating an appropriate efficiency-improvement projection model. A DFM model serves to improve the performance of business activities by identifying the most appropriate movement toward the efficiency frontier surface. Likewise, a context-dependent (CD) model seeks to reach efficient frontiers in a series of steps. A Stepwise Improvement-DFM model will be integrated here with a DFM and CD model. An extension of a Stepwise Improvement-DFM model is next achieved by including an FF. DEA is used in our comparative study on the efficiency assessment of airport operations in Japan. We consider three inputs (nonlabor material costs, labor input, and total runway length) and one output (operating airport revenues), including a fixed input factor (viz., total runway length). The abovementioned Stepwise Improvement-DFM-FF projection model is next illustrated on the basis of a comparative study regarding an efficiency assessment of airports in Japan.
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Suzuki, S., Nijkamp, P. (2017). Performance Measurement of Airport Operations in Japan: Combination of a Stepwise Improvement Model with a Fixed-Factor Model. In: Regional Performance Measurement and Improvement. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 9. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0242-7_12
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