 The Impact of Privatisation on the Efficiency of Train Operation in BritainLuisa Affuso, Alvaro Angeriz and Michael Pollitt No 28, Working Papers from Queen Mary, University of London, School of Business and Management, Centre for Globalisation Research Abstract: Twenty-five train operating companies (TOCs) were created between 1994-1997, as part of the restructuring process of the railway industry in Great Britain. The TOCs operate monopoly franchises for the provision of passenger rail services over certain routes - some of which continue to receive government subsidies. This paper investigates how the efficiency of these train operating companies evolved prior to the October 2000 Hatfield crash (which caused significant disruption to the network) using data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis. Our data allows us to look at the relative efficiency and productivity through the privatisation, to control the efficiency scores for environmental data and to correlate these results with safety and quality indicators. The analysis sheds some light on the successes and failures of the UK’s most controversial privatisation to date. Keywords: Railways; Comparative Efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis; Stochastic Frontier Analyisis; Malmquist Productivity Index; Train Operating Companies; Privatisation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cgs:wpaper:28 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from Queen Mary, University of London, School of Business and Management, Centre for Globalisation Research Contact information at EDIRC. |
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