Does performance management lead to better outcomes? Evidence from the US public transit industry

TH Poister, OQ Pasha… - Public Administration …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Although performance management processes are widely assumed to be beneficial in
improving organizational performance in the public sector, there is insufficient empirical …

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 …

Public bus service contracting: a critical review and future research opportunities

D Sheng, Q Meng - Research in Transportation Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the studies on public bus service contracting over the past three
decades. With a bibliometric approach, the impactful clusters of studies and research focus …

To bid or not to bid: An empirical study of the supply determinants of crowd-shipping

A Ermagun, A Stathopoulos - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study makes three contributions to the literature of crowd-shipping. First, we represent a
national data set incorporating 16,850 crowd-shipping requests across the United States for …

Environmental and economic-oriented transport efficiency: the role of climate change mitigation technology

Z Hussain - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022 - Springer
Transport sector is a vital aspect of economic and environment. However, it drastically
contributes desirable and undesirable outputs to the economy and the environment due to …

Strategy formulation and performance: Evidence from local public transit agencies

TH Poister, LH Edwards, OQ Pasha… - Public Performance & …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Building on an initial stream of research on the relationship between strategy process and
performance, this article analyzes the effect of strategic planning and logical incrementalism …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging allocative and productive efficiency in US transit policy research: A review

Z Mallett - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, I review literature that can build foundation for integrating allocative and
productive efficiency research of transit provision in the United States. Both frameworks …

Long-term cost efficiency of alternative management forms for urban public transport from the public sector perspective

CM Campos-Alba, D Prior, G Pérez-López… - Transport Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to analyse the long-term efficiency of different management forms for
urban public transport, using a sample of 193 Spanish municipalities for the period 2014 …

Transit access effectiveness in American metropolitan areas

A Ermagun, F Witlox - Journal of Transport Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
This research examines transit effectiveness empirically through the lens of access to
employment. The approach uses the gradual shift of mobility to access to introduce the …

Effects of bundling policy on project cost under market uncertainty: A comparison across different highway project types

Y Qiao, JD Fricker, S Labi - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
As highway agencies seek project delivery strategies that can help minimize their overall
costs, interest in the practice of project bundling, which refers to the combining of multiple …