Efficiency and effectiveness in the urban public transport sector: A critical review with directions for future research

C Daraio, M Diana, F Di Costa, C Leporelli… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
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) …

Incentives and the efficiency of public sector‐outsourcing contracts

PH Jensen, RE Stonecash - Journal of economic Surveys, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Outsourcing the provision of traditionally publicly provided services has become
commonplace in most industrialized nations. Despite its prevalence, there still is no …

A DEA approach for evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of urban transit systems

MG Karlaftis - European Journal of Operational Research, 2004 - Elsevier
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 …

Efficiency measurement in public transport: are findings specification sensitive?

MG Karlaftis, D Tsamboulas - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

[图书][B] Measuring and improving productivity in services: issues, strategies and challenges

F Djellal, F Gallouj - 2009 - books.google.com
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 …

[图书][B] Regional and urban economics and economic development: Theory and methods

ME Edwards - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Thorough and authoritative, Regional and Urban Economics and Economic Development:
Theory and Methods provides students with a sound approach to analyzing the economic …

Performance evaluation of public bus transportation by using DEA models and Shannon's entropy: An example from a company in a large city of China

Z Liu, N Wu, Y Qiao, Z Li - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Government failure in urban transportation

C Winston - Fiscal Studies, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Outsourcing public services: Contractibility, cost, and quality

F Andersson, H Jordahl… - CESifo Economic Studies, 2019 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Congestion, pollution, and benefit-to-cost ratios of US public transit systems

JD Harford - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2006 - Elsevier
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 …