A Survey of Productivity and Efficiency Measurement in Rail Transport

Abstract

This paper surveys alternative methodologies for measuring and comparing the productivity and efficiency of railways, and the empirical findings of applied studies. Empirical studies reveal trends and differences among railways and time periods. Almost all studies reviewed conclude that increased competition via regulatory liberalisation and deregulation has improved efficiency. Many European studies find that managerial autonomy increases efficiency. It is important that the effects of differential operating environments such as traffic density and the characteristics of a rail network should be removed in order to make a proper comparison of efficiency.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 151 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.