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Title:

Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis Method for Transportation Infrastructure Maintenance Management
Cover of Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis Method for Transportation Infrastructure Maintenance Management

Accession Number:

01627581

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Maintenance administrators of transportation infrastructure assets are always facing the challenges of ensuring productive spending and determining the most efficient ways to spend the limited amount of funds and resources available. Efficient resource allocation depends on how efficient the process of maintenance is across all levels of jurisdiction. Especially in states implementing performance-based maintenance management, the knowledge of how efficient a maintenance unit is performing is very important in the state agencies’ maintenance investment strategy. A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-based framework allows for efficiency comparison of maintenance units. Implementation of this framework in a decentralized fashion allows for comparison of maintenance units within a specific jurisdictional area, providing results showing the particular time period when maintenance units performed efficiently and inefficiently. However, the non-parametric nature of the DEA method limits the framework to compare efficiencies of units included in a particular comparison model. This study introduces the use of two-stage DEA method to improve the existing DEA framework for efficiency measurement of infrastructure maintenance. This involves regressing the values of the efficiency factors and testing their statistical viability before re-running the values through the DEA model. The inclusion of statistical aspects into DEA framework helps to identify factors with significant effect on efficiencies of maintenance units. It also increases the validity of efficiency numbers resulted from the efficiency comparison.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHD10 Standing Committee on Maintenance and Operations Management.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-02484

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Juni, Emil
Adams, Teresa M

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-02484

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:56AM