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Improving the efficiency of metropolitan area transit by joint analysis of its multiple providers |
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| Authors: | Darold T Barnum Matthew G Karlaftis Sonali Tandon |
| Institution: | aDepartments of Managerial Studies, Information & Decision Sciences, and Pharmacy Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 243), 601 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7123, USA;bDepartment of Transportation Planning Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 5, Iroon Polytechniou Street, Zografou Campus, Athens 15773, Greece;cChicago Transit Authority, 567 W. Lake Street, Chicago, IL 60661, USA |
| Abstract: | Public transportation in a metropolitan area often is supplied by multiple types of transit. This paper develops and illustrates a DEA-based procedure for estimating: overall efficiency of an area’s public transportation; technical efficiencies of the individual transit types; effect of each type on overall efficiency; and efficiency of the allocation of resources among types and an algorithm for improving it. The paper concludes that the overall efficiency of an urban area’s public transportation can be validly estimated only if the technical efficiency of each major transport type and the efficiency in allocating resources among them are taken into consideration. |
| Keywords: | Data Envelopment Analysis DEA Technical efficiency Allocation efficiency Urban transit Urban public transportation Urban transport |
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