Article ID: | iaor19962170 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 393 |
End Page Number: | 404 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1996 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Hjalmarsson Lennart, Odeck James |
Keywords: | construction & architecture, statistics: data envelopment analysis |
This paper focuses on the performance of trucks involved in road construction and maintenance, and operated by the regional agencies of a nationa public roads administration. The performance is evaluated from the productive efficiency point of view. The framework is that of a deterministic non-parametric (DEA) approach to efficiency measurement. In this context several important issues are addressed: efficiency ranking and distribution among trucks, the importance of an appropriate output measure, impact of regional characteristics and the significance of the make and model of the trucks.