This paper develops and demonstrates a quality control framework for bus schedule reliability. Automatic vehicle location (AVL) devices provide necessary data; data envelopment analysis (DEA) yields a valid summary measure from partial reliability indicators; and panel data analysis provides...

This research develops a model of the factors influencing public opinion on labor relations issues and tests the model with data from local referenda, each determining whether a community would adopt the Texas Fire and Police Employee Relations Act of 1973 and thereby allow local police and...

Examines labor relations in the urban transit industry in the United States and the effects of its transition from private to public ownership. Background on the structure of the industry; Discussion of the unionization of the industry; Information on trends in ridership, employment, and...

Public transportation in a metropolitan area often is supplied by multiple types of transit. This paper develops and illustrates a DEA-based procedure for estimating: overall efficiency of an area’s public transportation; technical efficiencies of the individual transit types; effect of each...