Identifying peer states for transportation system evaluation &amp; policy analyses

Hendren, Patricia; Niemeier, Deb

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“…Hendren and Niemeier (2008). However, this still has the limitation that it does not quantify the trade-off between the different aspects of performance.…”

Section: Performance Studies In Roadsmentioning

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Scale, quality and efficiency in road maintenance: Evidence for English local authorities

Wheat

2017

Transport Policy

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ReuseThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. This licence only allows you to download this work and share it with others as long as you credit the authors, but you can't change the article in any way or use it commercially. More information and the full terms of the licence here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request.1 Scale, quality and efficiency in road maintenance: evidence for English Local Authorities May 2017Phill Wheat* Abstract This paper outlines the first econometric stochastic frontier efficiency analysis of road maintenance costs for local authorities in England in the academic literature. It is motivated by current public sector austerity requiring local authorities to provide efficient highway functions both in terms of learning from best practice (economic efficiency) and potential reorganisation to exploit economies of scale (scale efficiency). The analysis utilises a road condition measure and an end user (public) satisfaction indicator as well as road length and traffic factors. The availability of public satisfaction data is particularly important as incorporation of such a measure into benchmarking is currently in its infancy in economic regulation but is increasing in prominence, such as in regulation of health care. Evidence is found for an optimal road length which has implications for the current trend to merge the delivery of highways services across local authorities. Bigger is not necessarily better. A positive relationship is found between public satisfaction and cost which is strongest for very low or high public satisfaction.Finally, the median cost efficiency is 83% which implies many authorities have the opportunity to save substantial sums by adopting best practice without reducing service quality.*University of Leeds, p.e.wheat@its.leeds.ac.uk 2

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“…Hendren and Niemeier (2008). However, this still has the limitation that it does not quantify the trade-off between the different aspects of performance.…”

Section: Performance Studies In Roadsmentioning

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Scale, quality and efficiency in road maintenance: Evidence for English local authorities

Wheat

2017

Transport Policy

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“…To overcome the problems described in the preceding paragraph, empirical strategies have been proposed in order to create similar groups (e.g. of states) for policy evaluation, in what Hendren and Niemeier (2008) call 'peer states'. The basic idea is that once states are clustered into peer groups, comparisons are allowed to be made between peer states and informative policy-oriented questions are allowed to be answered.…”

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Identifying peer states for transportation policy analysis with an application to New York's handheld cell phone ban

Sampaio

2012

Transportmetrica A: Transport Science

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There has been a significant amount of research in the transportation area on the development of strategies that allow good comparisons between states, such that policy analysis are allowed to be carried out and informative policy-oriented questions are allowed to be answered. In this article, the use of Synthetic Control Methods (SCM) is proposed to overcome several identification problems present in previous studies when constructing comparison groups/counterfactuals. The SCM is used to analyse the effect of New York state's law prohibiting handheld cell phone use while driving on fatality rates. Results show that (i) a synthetic 'peer state' for NY when evaluating this specific policy is composed of a convex combination of the states of IL, MA and TX and (ii) that imposing the ban led to a decrease of about 9% in fatality rates.

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A Nonparametric Efficiency Methodology for Comparative Assessment of Infrastructure Agency Performance

Ghahari¹,

Chen²,

Labi³

2021

Transportation Engineering

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Identifying peer states for transportation system evaluation & policy analyses

Abstract: Peer agencies, Transportation policy, Resource allocation, Performance measures,

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Scale, quality and efficiency in road maintenance: Evidence for English local authorities

Scale, quality and efficiency in road maintenance: Evidence for English local authorities

Identifying peer states for transportation policy analysis with an application to New York's handheld cell phone ban

A Nonparametric Efficiency Methodology for Comparative Assessment of Infrastructure Agency Performance

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