Evaluating the Performance of Privatization on Regional Transit Services: Case Study

In this study, we propose three categories of productivity measures of changes in production, service, and consumption following privatization of the Taiwan Motor Transport Company. The results indicate that privatization had a striking impact in terms of total factor productivity on various productivity growths. The results also demonstrate that technical change was the most important factor in the progress in productivity of the new owner, the Guo Gwang Bus Company, while change in efficiency or effectiveness contributed little to this growth. However, results further suggest that the insignificant increase in efficiency and effectiveness in the newly privatized firm may be attributed either to incorrect selection of input combinations or inappropriate returns to scale, or to both.

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• Authors:
  • Cho, Hsun-Jung
  • Fan, Chih-Ku
• Publication Date: 2007-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 119-127
• Serial:
  • Journal of Urban Planning and Development
  • Volume: 133
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-9488
  • EISSN: 1943-5444
  • Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jupddm

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Consumption; Evaluation; Impacts; Performance; Privatization; Production; Productivity
• Uncontrolled Terms: Change; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Regional transit; Service; Technical issues
• Geographic Terms: Taiwan
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01051670
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 14 2007 4:58PM