Sökning: "Transport efficiency"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 592 avhandlingar innehållade orden Transport efficiency.
1. Transport Efficiency: Analysing the Transport Service Triad
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with transport services and transport efficiency. There are growing environmental concerns for many industries and the freight transport industry in particular faces challenges in reducing its CO2 emissions. LÄS MER
2. Costs in Swedish Public Transport : An analysis of cost drivers and cost efficiency in public transport contracts
Sammanfattning : During the last seven years, the total cost for Swedish public transport provision has increased by over 30 percent in real terms according to figures from the government agency Transport Analysis. A similar pattern is found if considering a longer time span. LÄS MER
3. Efficiency and acceptability of pricing policies and transport investments in distorted economies
Sammanfattning : This thesis contains five papers studying the economic efficiency and political acceptability of road pricing policies and transport investments in distorted economies. Interactions between the transport market and other distorted markets, such as the labor market, can have a large impact on the welfare effect of a road pricing policy or a transport investment. LÄS MER
4. Competition in Public Transport : Essays on competitive tendering and open-access competition in Sweden
Sammanfattning : The results of this work show that the cost efficiency of tendered bus services is similar across all Swedish counties, except for the more high-density counties where efficiency is lower. Considerably lower efficiency is also found for contracts with services run in-house by the Public Transport Authority (PTA), compared to when the same service is run by a private actor. LÄS MER
5. Evaluating and Improving the Transport Efficiency of Logistics Operations
Sammanfattning : The thesis focuses on evaluating and improving the transport efficiency of two types of logistics operations in the supply chain.One research area is the production of raw material in construction operations, specifically earthmoving operations. LÄS MER