AN ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC BUS TRANSPORT COMPANIES IN MOROCCAN CITIES

Zehmed Karim () and Fouad Jawab
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Zehmed Karim: Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, P.O Box 2626 Imouzzer Road 30000, Fez, Morocco

Management Research and Practice, 2019, vol. 11, issue 1, 56-73

Abstract: The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it measures the relative efficiency of six public bus companies in the largest cities in Morocco for the year of 2013 and identifies, at the same time, potential efficiency improvements for each inefficient company. Secondly, it identifies the external factors that influences the measured efficiency. As a first step, the technical efficiency of the companies was measured using a Constant Return to scale model of Data Envelopment Analysis method (CRS-DEA). Further, the research identifies the percentage that a company needs to increase its outputs or reduce its inputs in order to achieve optimal efficiency. In the second step, certain external factors (namely those reflecting network structure, service characteristics, demographic and socio-economic conditions of cities) are regressed, upon the efficiencyscores, using a Tobit regression model. The study results concluded that companies of Casablanca and Marrakech cities are the best efficient of the sample and some exogenous factors may explain part of the inefficiencies of the other companies

Keywords: : Technical efficiency; Performance; Data Envelopment Analysis; Public bus transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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