| Title: |
Transit productivity analysis in heterogeneous conditions
using data envelopment analysis with an application to rail transit
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| Author: | |
| Document Type: |
Dissertation
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| Department: |
Executive Committee for the Interdisciplinary Program
in Transportation
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| Degree: |
Doctor of Philosophy
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| Major: |
Transportation
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| Advisory Committee: |
Bladikas, Athanassios K.
Pignataro, Louis J.
Spasovic, Lazar
Chien, I-Jy Steven
Lutin, Jerome M.
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| Thesis Date: |
2001, May
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| Keywords: |
Rail Transit
Transit Productivity Analysis
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
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| Availability: |
Unrestricted
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| Abstract: |
This dissertation extends transit productivity analysis by developing
a new method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the linear programming
approach to productivity analysis. The new model analyzes productivity
of transit working under heterogeneous operating conditions. It is named
Two-Farrell DEA for it applies DEA in two stages, DEA (1), that calculates
the productivity frontiers at given operating conditions and DEA (2),
that uses inputs adjusted by multipliers calculated in DEA (l). The model
Two Farrell DEA calculated productivity benchmarks for each rail transit
agency and estimated its potential for higher revenue or lower expense
improvement. Additionally, the results identify two production techniques
of rail transit, the sources of increasing returns to scale, the degree
of flexibility to changes in the shadow prices of the inputs, and a method
to prioritize investment for expansion of operations. Its indirect contribution
to transit operations planning consists of checking the consistency and
feasibility of new rail projects. Moreover, this dissertation includes
the first correlation analysis made between productivity and operating
conditions related to network form, factor analysis of transit operating
conditions, the comparison of results between the new model to four other
methods, and the evaluation of the empirical accuracy of methods with
cluster analysis.
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| Complete Thesis: |
njit-etd2001-078
(190 pages ~ 13,631 KB pdf)
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