DOI: 10.32725/978-80-7394-976-1.29

Efficiency of public transportation in the Czech Republic during the start of the crisis of 2020 studied by the DEA methods

Jiří Alina, Michal Houda, Tomáš Roskovec, Jan Fiala
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Department of Applied Economics and Economy, Studentská 13, 370 05 České Budějovice,Czech Republic, alina@ef.jcu.cz.
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Studentská 13, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic, houda@ef.jcu.cz.
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Studentská 13, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic, troskovec@ef.jcu.cz.
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Studentská 13, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic, jfiala@ef.jcu.cz.


Public transport companies play a key and irreplaceable role in the field of transport services for cities and urban agglomerations. The operation of transport companies is a highly demanding economic activity that is directly related to the strategy chosen by city representatives. The concern is primarily so-called subsidies for the operation of individual companies, that is, demonstrable loss always covered from the budget of municipalities. In a narrower economic context, however, a transport company is an economic entity that uses production factors (inputs) to generate outputs (typically transported persons, here). The efficient use of resources and the efficient functioning of companies is undoubtedly the goal of all cities. In the presented contribution, we make use of quantitative data envelopment analysis to verify relative economic efficiency of 12 Czech public transport companies in two particular years, 2019 and 2020, with the aim of demonstrating their ability to deal with the arrival of the crisis period of the covid-19 pandemic.

Keywords: efficiency, public transportation, data envelopment analysis

pages: 196-202



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