Investigating transit production and performance: A programming approach

Karlaftis, MG

dc.contributor.author	Karlaftis, MG	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:19:04Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:19:04Z
dc.date.issued	2003	en
dc.identifier.issn	0965-8564	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/15363
dc.subject	Data envelopment analysis	en
dc.subject	Mathematical programming	en
dc.subject	Transit economics and production	en
dc.subject	Transit efficiency	en
dc.subject.classification	Transportation	en
dc.subject.classification	Transportation Science & Technology	en
dc.subject.other	Data processing	en
dc.subject.other	Industrial management	en
dc.subject.other	Industrial research	en
dc.subject.other	Linear programming	en
dc.subject.other	Data sets	en
dc.subject.other	Productivity	en
dc.subject.other	data envelopment analysis	en
dc.subject.other	returns to scale	en
dc.subject.other	transportation economics	en
dc.title	Investigating transit production and performance: A programming approach	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1016/S0965-8564(02)00013-7	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0965-8564(02)00013-7	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2003	en
heal.abstract	Although efficiency and productivity are closely related issues they have been generally examined separately in the transit literature. Using an extensive panel data set, this analysis extends prior research in two directions. First, efficiency rankings and efficient subsets of transit systems are obtained through data envelopment analysis (DEA), a non-parametric linear programming based methodology. Second, based on the results of the DEA analysis, globally efficient frontier production functions, in the context of transit operations in the United States, are built. The results indicate that when jointly considered, there is an improvement on both the theoretical and empirical aspects of examining efficiency and production in transit systems. Further, the results indicate that efficiency and returns to scale findings differ substantially depending on the evaluation methodology used. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.	en
heal.publisher	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD	en
heal.journalName	Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/S0965-8564(02)00013-7	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000180956900002	en
dc.identifier.volume	37	en
dc.identifier.issue	3	en
dc.identifier.spage	225	en
dc.identifier.epage	240	en