This paper presents an approach to include both the unstorable feature of transportation service and the technological differences within railway companies in efficiency and effectiveness measurements. We explore efficiency and effectiveness for a group of 40 global railways in the year 2002,...

The purpose of this paper is to apply a hyperbolic graph efficiency approach to measure "return to the dollar" at the station-level of the Taiwan Motor Transport Company before and after privatization. The "return to the dollar" measure is decomposed into two components: a technical efficiency...