Objective Emerging economies like India are investing heavily in rapid development of urban transport infrastructure for public transport. Though the initial efforts started with three modes - metro rail, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and surface rail; currently investments are being made mainly in...

The paper attempts to examine the normative criteria of RIDF devolution by NABARD in reducing inter and intra state disparity in terms of sanction of per capita RIDF over the study period 1996 to 2010. Following Spiezia (2002), Adjusted Geographic Concentration index has been used to test the...

The aim of this study is twofold. First, it aims to put forward new information concerning the technical characteristics of State Road Transport Undertakings (henceforth, STUs) on the basis of a sample of medium and large-size Indian states. Second, it aims to analyze the level of productive...

The main aim of this study is to analyze the level of relative efficiency of State Transport Undertakings (STUs) in India during 2000s. The analysis is based on estimation of a translog cost function using fixed effects model of the panel data method. In the context of this study, the prime...

This paper analyses productivity and profitability performance of publicly owned Urban Bus Companies (UBCs) in India. Annual data for a sample of nine UBCs, for which consistent data are available from 2000-01 to 2010-11, are used for this analysis. We find that there is a wide disparity among...

This paper briefly reviews the existing methods of capacity utilization in nonparametric framework from economic perspectives, and then suggests an alternative in the light of limitations therein. In the spirit of work by Coelli et al. [Coelli, T.J., Grifell-Tatje, E., Perelman, S., 2002....

Grifell-Tatje and Lovell (Grifell-Tatje, E., Lovell, C.A.K., 1999. Profits and productivity. Management Science 45, 1177-1193) made significant contributions to the literature on the extended radial DEA framework by decomposing profit change into six mutually exclusive components. Their...

The context of providing right value to the customer begins with a holistic objective and a broad vision. The issue of broad vision appears as being devoid of the point focus, but it is a blessing in disguise especially when this asymptotic phenomenon results because of inclusion of...

In India, pulses annual production ranges from 11-15 million tons with per hectare of yield of 595 kg. India contributes about 93% of the total global pigeonpea, 68% of chickpea and 32% of lentil production. However India’s rank in productivity is low that is 24th in chickpea, 9th in...

We study the interaction between transit improvements and land use policies in the context of Bengaluru, one of India's largest cities. The city inaugurated a metro system in 2011. Yet it has low building heights even near metro stations, reflecting low floor-area ratio limits. We construct a...