Determinants of productive efficiency in urban transit

Using data from a group of mid-sized bus transit agencies in the US, agency level technical efficiency is measured with non-parametric frontier analysis (data envelopment analysis). The analysis is supplemented by a second stage regression of agency characteristics on the technical efficiency scores...

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Published inThe Logistics and transportation review Vol. 32; no. 3; p. 319
Main Author Nolan, James F
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver University of British Columbia, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration 01.09.1996
Subjects
Best practice
Buses
Cost reduction
Data envelopment analysis
Efficiency
Government agencies
Linear programming
Logistics
Measurement techniques
Optimization
Performance evaluation
Productivity measurement
Public companies
Public transportation
Regression analysis
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United States > US
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Summary:Using data from a group of mid-sized bus transit agencies in the US, agency level technical efficiency is measured with non-parametric frontier analysis (data envelopment analysis). The analysis is supplemented by a second stage regression of agency characteristics on the technical efficiency scores. The interpretations of the empirical results accord with a number of previous findings about determinants of cost efficiency in US transit agencies.
ISSN:0047-4991