This paper proposes a self-contained reference for both policy makers and scholars who
want to address the problem of efficiency and effectiveness of local public transport (LPT) …

This paper reviews the studies on public bus service contracting over the past three
decades. With a bibliometric approach, the impactful clusters of studies and research focus …

State-owned enterprises make up roughly 10 percent of the world economy, yet they are
woefully understudied. This handbook offers the first synthesis of the topic since the 1980s …

In many countries, governments are pushing for the introduction of competition in the
organization of public services and more broadly in public procurement. The development of …

The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of public transport operations undertaken in
Swedish counties by the Public Transport Authorities (PTA), taking into account the …

This paper introduces a new composite indicator method integrating the spatial dependence
into the robust directional model in the case of undesirable outputs. The proposed approach …

This article investigates how the ownership and the selection procedure of firms operating in
the Local Public Transport (LPT) sector affect their productivity. In order to compare different …

This paper assesses the impact of regulatory and environmental factors and statistical noise
on the efficiency of public transit systems within a DEA-based framework. Using a panel of …

The paper undertakes a comparative efficiency analysis of public bus transport in Spain
using Data Envelopment Analysis. A procedure for efficiency evaluation was established …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the long-term efficiency of different management forms for
urban public transport, using a sample of 193 Spanish municipalities for the period 2014 …