DETERMINANTS OF PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY IN URBAN TRANSIT

Using data from a group of mid-sized bus transit agencies in the Unite d States. this paper measures agency level technical efficiency with n on-parametric frontier analysis (data envelopment analysis or DEA). Th e analysis is supplemented by a second stage regression of agency char acteristics on the technical efficiency scores. The interpretations of the empirical results accord with a number of previous findings about determinants of cost efficiency in U.S. transit agencies.