This paper proposes a self-contained reference for both policy makers and scholars who
want to address the problem of efficiency and effectiveness of local public transport (LPT) …

Outsourcing the provision of traditionally publicly provided services has become
commonplace in most industrialized nations. Despite its prevalence, there still is no …

The need to measure transit system performance along with its various dimensions has led
to the development of a large number of quantitative performance indicators. However …

The need to measure transit system performance along with its various dimensions such as
efficiency and effectiveness has led to the development of a wide array of approaches and …

The question of how to measure and improve productivity in services has been a recurrent
topic in political debates and in academic studies for several decades. The concept of …

Thorough and authoritative, Regional and Urban Economics and Economic Development:
Theory and Methods provides students with a sound approach to analyzing the economic …

The purpose of this paper is to assess the operational efficiency of a public bus
transportation via a case study from a company in a large city of China by using data …

This paper assesses governmental performance in its investment, provision and regulation
of urban transportation. Attention is given to public bus and rail transit and road …

We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions
from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by …

This paper presents a broad set of benefit–cost analyses of the public transit systems of 81
urbanized areas. The calculated sources of benefits are to riders and the reduction of …