Developing measures of airport productivity and performance: an application of data envelopment analysis

Gillen, David; Lall, Ashish

doi:10.1016/s1366-5545(97)00028-8

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“…For example, Hooper and Hensher (1997) examine the performance of six Australian airports over a 4-year period using the total factor productivity (TFP) method. Gillen and Lall (1997) develop two separate data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to evaluate terminal and airside operations separately from each other, and applied them to a pooled data of 21 top U.S. airports for the 1989-93 period. Nyshadham and Rao (2000) evaluate the efficiency of European airports using TFP and examine the relationship between the TFP index and several partial measures of airport performance.…”

Section: Literature Review and Issues Surrounding Airport Ownershipmentioning

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Ownership forms matter for airport efficiency: A stochastic frontier investigation of worldwide airports

Oum

Jia

2008

Journal of Urban Economics

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We study the effects of ownership forms on airports' cost efficiency by applying stochastic frontier analysis to a panel data of the world's major airports. Our key findings are: (a) Countries considering privatization of airports should transfer majority shares to the private sector; (b) Mixed ownership of airport with a government majority should be avoided in favor of even 100% government owned public firm; (c) U.S. airports operated by port authorities should consider to transfer ownership/management to independent airport authorities; and (d) Privatization of one or more airports in cities with multiple airports would improve the efficiency of all airports.2

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Section: Literature Review and Issues Surrounding Airport Ownershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ownership forms matter for airport efficiency: A stochastic frontier investigation of worldwide airports

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Jia

2008

Journal of Urban Economics

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“…Starting from the pioneer work of Gillen and Lall (1997) [45], there has been a steady growth of studies applying DEA methods in the airport industry, especially from 2008. Particularly, there has been an average of about two papers published every year during the period 1997-2007, while in the following years such number has more than doubled.…”

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Measuring and Explaining Airport Efficiency and Sustainability: Evidence from Italy

2018

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Abstract:From an environmental point of view, it is widely recognized in economic literature that an efficient management of regional airports produces positive effects both for congestion reduction in the larger airports and for better use of existing infrastructures. Regional airports generally suffer from economic vulnerabilities because of scarcity of traffic volume; besides, their small catchment areas often determine low cash flow levels. As a result, significant problems of economic sustainability arise. In this context, airport infrastructure providers have the incentive to hide failures in their strategic decisions, justifying the low share of cost recovery through market characteristics. By means of the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) method this paper analyses overall technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency of 34 Italian airports in the period 2006-2016 in order to investigate how a number of factors impact on the efficiency and economic sustainability of regional airports. Our findings reveal that airport size, presence of low-cost carriers and cargo traffic have a significant influence on the technical and scale efficiency of Italian airports. In other words, air transport privatization and deregulation can positively affect regional airport efficiency and sustainability. This is to say that the market mechanism is a useful tool in achieving regional airport sustainability even if the empirical analysis of the effects of privatization and deregulation is recommended for evaluating such political programs.

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“…It can be observed that a conventional approach to the analysis of airports is to separate activities into terminals and movements (Gillen and Lall, 2001;Pels et al, 2001Pels et al, , 2003. Several papers compare the DEA model with the frontier model (Pels et al, 2001(Pels et al, , 2003Hooper and Hensher, 1997), while others combine principal component analysis with a DEA model (Adler and Berechman, 2001).…”

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“…More specifically, in productivity analysis, most papers adopt the Malmquist index (Murillo-Melchor, 1999;Gillen and Lall, 2001), which is based either upon Shephardian input-or output-distance function, compatible with the objectives of cost minimisation, or on revenue maximisation (Färe and Primont, 1995). However, in some cases, it might be preferable to assume profit maximisation, which is the traditional assumption in economic theory (Färe et al, 1994;Chambers, 1996;Chambers and Pope, 1996;Balk, 1998;Briec and Kerstens, 2004).…”

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Productivity change of UK airports

Barros

Managi

2014

IJLEG

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Abstract:In this paper, the two innovative non-parametric models, the Luenberger productivity model and the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator, are used to estimate the productivity of UK airports. The airports are ranked according to their total productivity over ten years showing that the majority of UK airports did not improve their efficiency during the period. Economic implications arising from the study are derived.

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Developing measures of airport productivity and performance: an application of data envelopment analysis

Cited by 400 publications

References 7 publications

Ownership forms matter for airport efficiency: A stochastic frontier investigation of worldwide airports

Ownership forms matter for airport efficiency: A stochastic frontier investigation of worldwide airports

Measuring and Explaining Airport Efficiency and Sustainability: Evidence from Italy

Productivity change of UK airports

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