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Evaluating efficiency of passenger railway stations: a DEA approach

Evaluating efficiency of passenger railway stations: a DEA approach
Evaluating efficiency of passenger railway stations: a DEA approach
Stations are bottlenecks for railway transportation as they are where traffics merge and diverge. Numerous activities such as passengers boarding, alighting and interchanging, train formation and technical checks are also done at these points. The number of platforms is limited and it is vital to do all the work efficiently. For the first time in the literature, we implement a methodology based on data envelopment analysis which is benchmarked from ports and airport efficiency studies. It can help policy makers and practitioners to rank stations in terms of efficiency and take more informative decisions. The proposed methodology can analyse the relative ‘technical efficiency’ of stations to handle train stops with existing station capacity. The second stage model analyses ‘service effectiveness’ to identify how well train stops at a station are transformed into the number of passenger entries, exits and interchanges, taking into account catchment area population and job opportunities. The models are applied to a case study of the 96 busiest train stations in Great Britain and are followed up by two Tobit regressions to assess the effect of traffic type and location on the results.
2210-5395
33-38
Khadem Sameni, Melody
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Preston, John
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Khadem Sameni, Mona
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Khadem Sameni, Melody
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Preston, John
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Khadem Sameni, Mona
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Khadem Sameni, Melody, Preston, John and Khadem Sameni, Mona (2016) Evaluating efficiency of passenger railway stations: a DEA approach. [in special issue: Benchmarking] Research in Transportation Business & Management, 20, 33-38. (doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2016.06.001).

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Stations are bottlenecks for railway transportation as they are where traffics merge and diverge. Numerous activities such as passengers boarding, alighting and interchanging, train formation and technical checks are also done at these points. The number of platforms is limited and it is vital to do all the work efficiently. For the first time in the literature, we implement a methodology based on data envelopment analysis which is benchmarked from ports and airport efficiency studies. It can help policy makers and practitioners to rank stations in terms of efficiency and take more informative decisions. The proposed methodology can analyse the relative ‘technical efficiency’ of stations to handle train stops with existing station capacity. The second stage model analyses ‘service effectiveness’ to identify how well train stops at a station are transformed into the number of passenger entries, exits and interchanges, taking into account catchment area population and job opportunities. The models are applied to a case study of the 96 busiest train stations in Great Britain and are followed up by two Tobit regressions to assess the effect of traffic type and location on the results.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 June 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 12 July 2016
Published date: September 2016
Organisations: Transportation Group

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Local EPrints ID: 401839
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/401839
ISSN: 2210-5395
PURE UUID: 3be36983-7128-4c3f-abf6-b8672cd80c5f
ORCID for John Preston: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6866-049X

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Date deposited: 21 Oct 2016 14:20
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 06:00

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Author: Melody Khadem Sameni
Author: John Preston ORCID iD
Author: Mona Khadem Sameni

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