A Stepwise Projection Data Envelopment Analysis for Public Transport Operations in Japan

Abstract:     
With tightening budgets and increasingly critical reviews of public expenditure, there is a need for a careful analysis of the performance of public bodies in terms of an efficient execution of their tasks. These questions show up everywhere in the public domain, for instance, in the provision of medical facilities, the operation of postal services, or the supply of public transport. A standard tool to judge the efficiency of such agencies is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In the past years, much progress has been made to extend this approach in various directions. Examples are the Distance Friction Minimization (DFM) model and the Context-Dependent (CD) model.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 16

Keywords: data envelopment analysis (DEA), stepwise projection, distance friction minimization

JEL Classification: L91, N75, C01

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