Competitive tendering of local bus services in Germany has received increased attention. Employing Seemingly Unrelated … the federal state of Hesse increase over time, prices in the Munich area decrease. Optimisation of bus utilisation in …

In this paper, we present a nonparametric comparative efficiency analysis of 179 communal public transport bus … average technical efficiency of German bus companies is relatively low. We observe that the industry appears to be … characterized by increasing returns to scale for smaller companies. These results would imply increasing pressure on bus companies …

Competitive tendering of local bus services in Germany has received increased attention. Employing Seemingly Unrelated … the federal state of Hesse increase over time, prices in the Munich area decrease. Optimisation of bus utilisation in … of overarching authorities. -- Public transport ; bus ; tendering ; price ; region ; SUR analysis ; SFA …