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Developing geographical indicators of mileage-related costs: a case study exploring travelling public services in English local areas
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Hindle, G. A. and Hindle, A.. (2010) Developing geographical indicators of mileage-related costs: a case study exploring travelling public services in English local areas. Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol.61 (No.5). pp. 714-722. ISSN 0160-5682
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jors.2009.21
Abstract
The context of this study is the public sector provision of services involving travelling in local authority areas in England. Such travelling services are costly and the relative levels of these costs across different local areas have raised a number of policy issues, particularly how performance assessments of local authorities and capitation-based funding by central government take into account (or fail to take into account) the differential travel costs faced in geographical areas that differ in population dispersion (sparsity) characteristics. The research presented here is concerned with identifying and evaluating practical indicators of mileage-related costs faced in local areas and a range of indicators have been explored for three services: domiciliary care, refuse collection and home-to-school transport. The findings suggest that currently used population dispersion indicators could be improved and that the current sparsity allowances in England underestimate the relative cost effects by a considerable amount. Journal of the Operational Research Society (2010) 61, 714-722. doi:10.1057/jors.2009.21
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 0160-5682 |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Volume: | Vol.61 |
| Number: | No.5 |
| Number of Pages: | 9 |
| Page Range: | pp. 714-722 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1057/jors.2009.21 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| Funder: | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/6106 |
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