Efficiency and effectiveness in the urban public transport sector: a critical review with directions for future research

Cinzia Daraio (), Marco Diana (), Flavia Di Costa (), Claudio Leporelli (), Giorgio Matteucci () and Alberto Nastasi ()
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Cinzia Daraio: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Marco Diana: Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Flavia Di Costa: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Claudio Leporelli: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Giorgio Matteucci: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Alberto Nastasi: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

No 2014-14, DIAG Technical Reports from Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Abstract: This paper proposes a self-contained reference for both policy makers and scholars who want to address the problem of efficiency and effectiveness of Local Public Transport (LPT) in a sound empirical way. Framing economic efficiency studies into a transport planning perspective, it offers a critical discussion of the existing empirical studies, relating them to the main methodological approaches used. The connection between such perspectives and Operations Research studies dealing with scheduling and tactical design of public transport services is also developed. The comprehensive classification of selected relevant dimensions of the empirical literature, namely inputs, outputs, kind of data analyzed, methods adopted and policy relevant questions addressed, and the systematic investigation of their interrelationships allows us to summarize the existing literature and to propose desirable developments and extensions for future studies in the field.

Keywords: Public transport; Variable and Total Cost Functions; Efficiency; Effectiveness; OLS; Translog; DEA; SFA; Transport indicators; Transit scheduling; Tactical design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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