*Research Scholar, Department of Statistics, Presidency College, Chepauk, Chennai-05, Tamil Nadu, India
**Associate Professor and Head, Department of Statistics, Presidency College, Chepauk, Chennai-05, Tamil Nadu, India
Online published on 1 August, 2019.
This study mainly focuses on estimating the Technical efficiency of Transport in public transportation among the 8 districts in Tamilnadu during the year 2014–2015. Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) technique has been applied to evaluate the technical efficiency. For this objective CRS DEA and VRS DEA models are attempted. The analysis of the study reflects that two Transport corporations are efficient under CRS model and three are efficient under VRS model. Besides DEA provides input and output targets for the inefficient Decision Making Unit'S to improve their efficiency.
Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA), Technical efficiency(TE), Constant Returns to Scale(CRS), Variable returns to scale(VRS)
