Productivity and efficiency in urban railways: Parametric and non-parametric estimates

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-99

  Graham, Daniel J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Productivity; Translog

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

ANALYSIS METHOD; NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATES; NONPARAMETRICS; PARAMETRIC EFFICIENCIES; PRODUCTIVITY CHANGES; RETURN TO SCALE; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; TRANS-LOG PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS; TRANSLOG; URBAN RAILWAY;

EFFICIENCY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; RAILWAY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 34948879118     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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