Abstract
Congestion is a term that is applicable in a variety of disciplines which range from medical science to traffic engineering. It also has many uses in practical everyday life. This brings with it a certain looseness in usage. We therefore expand (and refine) our discussion of congestion with reference to its use in economics where we have access to a precise meaning which we can develop in this chapter. This chapter covers the standard approaches used for treating congestion in DEA
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Cooper, W.W., Deng, H., Seiford, L.M., Zhu, J. (2004). Congestion. In: Cooper, W.W., Seiford, L.M., Zhu, J. (eds) Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 71. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-7798-X_7
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