Refinement of benefit-cost analysis results for highway projects

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Özkan Erdal, Nilhan
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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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N. Özkan Erdal, “Refinement of benefit-cost analysis results for highway projects,” Middle East Technical University, 2000.
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