Efficiency Analysis of Chinese Road Systems with DEA and Order Relation Analysis Method: Externality Concerned

This paper uses both Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-CCR and DEA-BBC models to make an empirical analysis of the relative efficiency of China's highway systems respectively with respect to freight and passenger transport productivity. The results reveal that 64.5% of provincial highway systems present decreasing returns to scale. The non-parametric test shows that there is no significant difference in regional management levels and that 45% of provincial highway systems are not efficient in their management levels. Thus, the corresponding improvement target and direction are dealt with in the paper. In addition, a super-efficiency analysis is conducted to rank the efficiency of highway systems. In this paper, the management level efficiency and scale efficiency scores for these systems provide the management authorities with policy-making strategies of how to allocate resources so as to maximize the output efficiency of their systems.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.140
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813022660
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/18770428
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2013 Peihua Fu et al.
• Authors:
  • Fu, Peihua
  • Zhan, Zhenggang
  • Wu, Chengjian
• Conference:
  • 13th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2013)
  • Location: Shenzhen , China
  • Date: 2013-8-13 to 2013-8-16
• Publication Date: 2013-11-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1227-1238
• Serial:
  • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Volume: 96
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0428
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freight transportation; Highways; Output; Passenger transportation; Policy making; Productivity; Resource allocation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data envelopment analysis; Operational efficiency
• Geographic Terms: China
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01514859
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 21 2014 3:16PM