Performance Evaluation of the Czech Urban Public Transport Companies

Authors

MATULOVÁ Markéta FITZOVÁ Hana

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of the 20th International Conference Current Trends in Public Sector Research 2016
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Field Management and administrative
Keywords public transport; efficiency; network DEA; the Czech Republic
Description Environmental issues, decreasing reserves of oil, and growing population in larger cities are the main reasons for developing efficiency benchmarking measurement models of public transport systems. The objective of this paper is to analyze technical efficiency and service effectiveness of public transport systems in 19 cities in the Czech Republic. In order to evaluate the overall performance, network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was employed. Two inputs (number of employees and costs), two intermediate measures (vehicle kilometers and seat kilometers) and two outputs (number of passengers and sales) were used. The model computes simultaneously technical efficiency and service effectiveness. The data were provided by the Association of the Transport Companies of the Czech Republic. Two companies were identified as technically efficient, another two companies as service effective and only one company (Public Transport Company of Liberec) as overall effective. Finally, information from annual reports of the transport companies (like subsidies from local governments, composition of rolling stock, investment to the new vehicles, etc.) were analyzed to establish possible recommendations, which could lead to better values of efficiency scores.
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