Analysing Transportation Public Agencies Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Carotenuto, Pasquale; Coffari, A.; Gastaldi, Massimo; Levialdi, Nathan

doi:10.1016/s1474-6670(17)43895-x

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“…Effectiveness measurements are commonly thought of as a reflection of how well a transportation system accomplishes its objectives. Typically, this is associated with the number of passengers carried and is assessed for passengers per vehicle hour or mile, as well as the proportion of expenditures recovered from operating revenues (recovery ratio) [16,17].…”

Section: Transit Performance Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Operational Performance Analysis of Public Bus Transport Services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

GIRMA¹

2023

SJSUT.ST

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In emerging countries, improving performance in the transportation industry is a critical concern. Bus transport companies like Anbessa, Sheger and the Public Service Employees' Transport Service play a pivotal role in Addis Ababa's transit system. Subsequently, this study analyzes the operators' operational performance, comparing it to industry norms. The collected data is analyzed using the ratio analysis approach. The findings indicate that the Anbessa City Bus outperforms the other buses in several aspects, such as fleet strength, service utilization, and vehicle utilization, but there is a disparity in staff productivity and operational safety. Sheger City Bus, on the other hand, outperforms the market in terms of vehicle utilization, workforce productivity, and operational safety. However, on most of the indicators, the Public Employees Bus performs the worst. Finally, comparing the operators' performance to industry standards, most indications show that they fail to meet. Consequently, even if bus transit operators are subsidized by the government in the operation of their services for residents, the study suggests that they must make significant improvements in how they use their resources to improve their financial and operational performance and deliver better services compared to those provided by other operators in the city. In addition, government incentives such as subsidies should be allocated based on actual operational performance.

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Section: Transit Performance Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Operational Performance Analysis of Public Bus Transport Services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

GIRMA¹

2023

SJSUT.ST

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“…Effectiveness measures are mostly thought of as displaying how effective a transport system is concerning accomplishing its aims. Usually, this is considered with passengers carried and is measured by such factors as passengers per vehicle hour or a mile or percentage of costs recovered from operating revenues (Carotenuto et al, 2017;Carter and Lomax,1992;Dajani & Gilbert,1978;Fielding et al,1985;Cook and Lawrie, 2004). Public transit performance assessments can reveal various viewpoints.…”

Section: Transit Performance Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance Analysis of Urban Public Transport Service Enterprise in Addis Ababa: Data Envelopment Analysis

GIRMA¹

2021

PPAR

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Measuring the public transit service enterprise's performance is a powerful tool for decision-making and managerial control to assess the utilization level of various inputs to obtain the desired outputs. Thus, this study aims to measure the performance of public bus transport enterprises of Addis Ababa using the Data Envelopment Analysis method during the year 2016/17 to 2017/18. There is an absence of studies in the country examining public transport sector efficiency using the DEA approach, which makes this research a chance. The study employed an input-oriented DEA model to measure bus transit efficiency. Thus, fleet size and a total number of employees are used as inputs, while covered vehicle km and total passengers transported per year are used as an output to measure performance. Then, the enterprises' technical efficiency and operational effectiveness are analyzed based on secondary data collected from each enterprise. The overall results show Anbessa and Sheger city buses are technically efficient and operationally effective in utilizing their inputs to deliver the desired output compared to others in the city. However, outcomes for Alliance city bus and Public Service Employees Transport Service Enterprise indicate that they utilize their inputs inefficiently and consumed their services ineffectively. Hence, these inefficient enterprises need significant improvements in using their resources to enhance their performance and deliver services incompetent with other operators in the city. Besides, the Government should encourage privately owned public transport operators in the city and provide subsidies and other incentives to all based on their existing performance.

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“…The analysis was supplemented by a second stage regression of agency characteristics on the technical efficiency scores. Carotenuto et al 8 and Boile 9 evaluated the efficiencies of the transit system and observed the inefficiencies in input and output variables after the development of the DEA model. De Borger et al 10 reviewed the production and cost frontiers as a part of the DEA model for public transit system; the study presents a review of transit performance indicators and methods to measure them.…”

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Comparative Evaluation of Bus Rapid Transit Routes Using Super Efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis

Kathuria¹,

Parida²,

Sekhar³

2017

Current Science

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Periodical evaluation of the transit system and its subunits is becoming paramount for improving its performance. This article evaluates the performance of 12 routes of the bus rapid transit system operating in Ahmedabad, India. The performance indices considered in the study were divided into five major types of efficiency, viz. route design, scheduled design, cost, service delivery, and comfort and safety efficiency. Super efficiency data envelopment analysis was used to estimate efficiency scores for each type. Further, composite efficiency of routes was estimated based on analytical hierarchy process technique.Keywords: Analytical hierarchy process, bus rapid transit, data envelopment analysis, route performance. THE bus rapid transit system (BRTS) has now become an integral part of the urban transportation system in a number of cities in both developed and developing countries. Transit agencies are therefore trying to operate this system efficiently to increase the revenue for balancing the operating cost. The cities in which BRTS is in operation are still in the process of expanding the corridors of this system; therefore, limited research has been carried out to understand the performance of the already existing corridors and routes.According to the literature, the performance of a transit service can be measured at four levels, viz. bus stop, route, corridor and system 1 . The transit agencies are mainly concerned with evaluating the performance of the route as most of the variables affecting it are under their control. Various route performance attributes based on passenger, operator and community perspective have been studied and presented here.In the present study we evaluate the route performance of the entire network BRTS in Ahmedabad, India consisting of 12 routes. This evaluation was done using ITS, ticketing, landuse and user perception data. The selected parameters were consolidated to five efficiencies, viz. route design, scheduled design, cost, service delivery, and comfort and safety efficiency. To evaluate the performance of each route, a linear programming-based model, i.e. data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used. DEA is a nonparametric method in operations research which is used to measure productivity efficiency of decisionmaking units (DMUs) which in the present study are the BRTS routes. DEA was used in the present study as it is capable of handling multiple inputs, and outputs and also because the sources of the inefficiency can be analysed and quantified for every evaluated unit (BRTS route). To evaluate the performance of BRTS routes, two types of DEA models were used, viz. Charles, cooper and Rhodes (CCR) model based on constant return to scale and super efficiency data envelopment analysis (SEDEA) model. SEDEA is an improvement over the conventional DEA model as the unity constraint of efficiency is relaxed in this model; this allows the routes to achieve an efficiency score more than unity. This is important because by the conventional DEA model some routes achieve an efficiency ...

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Analysing Transportation Public Agencies Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Operational Performance Analysis of Public Bus Transport Services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Operational Performance Analysis of Public Bus Transport Services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Performance Analysis of Urban Public Transport Service Enterprise in Addis Ababa: Data Envelopment Analysis

Comparative Evaluation of Bus Rapid Transit Routes Using Super Efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis

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