Research Article

Technical and Scale Efficiency in Spanish Urban Transport: Estimating with Data Envelopment Analysis

Table 1

Taxonomy of frontier methodologies [12].

Functional formMeasurement error
DeterministicStochastic

ParametricCorrected OLS, and so forthFrontiers with explicit assumptions (exponential, half-normal, etc.) for the TE distributions
NonparametricFDH, DEA-type models, and so forthResampling: chance constrained programming, and so forth