Public transit subsidies, output effect and total factor productivity

This paper extends previous works on total factor productivity decomposition when firms receive both operating and capital subsidies. It shows that previous works considered either the lump-sum or substitution effects of these subsidies but not together. Using constrained cost minimization as the framework it offers formal proofs to show that cost increases are inevitable if the total effects of the subsidies are considered, and that total factor productivity growth results from increasing amounts of subsidies under economies of scale and in the absence of technical change. Applications of the decomposition equations derived to a sample of transit systems finds near constant returns to scale and negative contributions of these subsidies to total factor productivity growth. Technical change reverses this decline and results in total factor productivity growth. Further, it finds that the lump-sum effects of the subsidies reduce total factor productivity more than does the substitution effect.     

论企业的多元化

随着我国加入世贸组织,中国企业正面临着越来越激烈的竞争,经营的多元化也更多的成为企业决策时的选择。然而,有些企业由于对多元化的本质认识不够,在实行多元化战略的过程中暴露出一些问题,有些企业甚至陷入了所谓的多元化经营危机。本文将就企业在多元化经营方面的一些问题做经济学的理论探讨,并为中国企业在多元化经营方面提供一点决策建议。     

运输范围经济与规模经济比较

采用理论和实际相结合的方法,分析运输范围经济和规模经济的内涵,从理论和实证两个方面指出运输范围经济与规模经济的相互区别及内在联系,确定运输业存在范围经济和规模经济两种经济形式。最后,在此基础上提出推进我国道路运输范围经济与规模经济发展的有效政策措施。     

乡镇汽车客运站场规模确定方法研究

通过对传统乡镇汽车客运站场规模确定方法不足的分析,针对农村旅客运输特点,对乡镇汽车客运站的功能进行了定位,从农村客运站场网络体系优化出发,提出了协调法确定乡镇汽车客运站场规模,建立了相应的站场规模调整模型,并给出了计算步骤和相关参数的标定方法及部分推荐值。最后通过成都市青白江区的实例验证了方法的可行性。     

城市公交场站设施规划

公交场站设施是重要的城市基础设施.本文重点探讨城市公交场站设施规划建设方面的一些问题,包括公交场站发展的规模、场站规划设置标准、场站建设模式等,并提出了相关的意见和建议.     

对JJG234—1990《动态称量轨道衡》修订的若干问题分析

结合现行国际法制计量组织（OIML）国际建议R106《自动轨道衡》以及我国轨道衡检定的实际情况,分析对JJG234—1990《动态称量轨道衡》的修订应关注的若干问题,包括检定规程的名称,准确度等级、分度值和最大允许误差,法制管理要求和检定方法等方面。     

Is equilibrium in transport pure Nash,mixed or Stochastic?

The classical theory of transport equilibrium is based on the Wardrop’s first principle that describes a Nash User Equilibrium (UE), where in no driver can unilaterally change routes to improve his/her travel times. A growing number of economic laboratory experiments aiming at testing Nash-Wardrop equilibrium have shown that the Pure Strategy Nash Equilibrium (PSNE) is not able to explain the observed strategic choices well. In addition even though Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium (MSNE) has been found to fit better the observed aggregate choices, it does not explain the variance in choices well. This study analyses choices made by users in three different experiments involving strategic interactions in endogenous congestion to evaluate equilibrium prediction. We compare the predictions of the PSNE, MSNE and Stochastic User Equilibrium (SUE). In SUE, the observed variations in choices are assumed to be due to perception errors. The study proposes a method to iteratively estimate SUE models on choice data with strategic interactions. Among the three sets of experimental data the SUE approach was found to accurately predict the average choices, as well as the variances in choices. The fact that the SUE model was found to accurately predict variances in choices, suggests its applicability for transport equilibrium models that attempt to evaluate reliability in transportation systems. This finding is fundamental in the effort to determining a behaviourally consistent paradigm to model equilibrium in transport networks. The study also finds that Fechner error which is the inverse of the scale parameter in the SUE model is affected by the group sizes and the complexity of the cost function. In fact, the larger group sizes and complexity of cost functions increased the variability in choices. Finally, from an experimental design standpoint we show that it is not possible to estimate a noise parameter associate to Fechner error in the case when the choices are equally probable.