scholarly journals Data Envelopment Analysis for Technological, Environmental and Economic Analysis of Motorway Underpasses

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateřina Myšková ◽  
Jaroslav Žák
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Technical Parameters ◽  
Proper Design ◽  
Wildlife Migration ◽  
Design Construction

Underpasses play an important role in ensuring permeability of line traffic structures (motorways, expressways) for feral species. There are many studies, articles and methodological guidebooks available describing proper design principles for technical parameters of underpasses and their placement within the terrain. Width, height and length are the main technical parameters affecting wildlife migration. Wildlife behaviour and their requirements for the mentioned technical parameters of underpasses also have been examined in depth. In practically all cases, underpass functionality grows with increasing width and height. Of course, this also results in greater construction costs. The objective should therefore be to find a balanced compromise enabling “sufficient” functionality while maintaining “reasonable” costs. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) provides a way to identify “good” solutions in the sense of “sufficient” underpass functionality with “reasonable” total costs. Underpass functionality calculations were based on a methodology for calculating migration potentials (Žák and Florian, 2013). Total costs were established according to actual construction work prices in the Czech Republic, including prices for preparations, design, construction, maintenance, and demolition. The results indicate that DEA can be used to find “good” solutions and can be of assistance in particular when planning measures to ensure motorways are permeable to wildlife.

scholarly journals Efficiency of the building societies in the Czech Republic

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-150
Author(s):  
Lukáš Leksovský ◽  
Daniel Stavárek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Parametric Method ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Building Society ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Average Efficiency ◽  
Administrative Expenses ◽  
Building Societies

This paper is the first attempt to analyze efficiency of building societies in the Czech Republic. We apply non-parametric method Data Envelopment Analysis on data from all building societies in the sector over the period 2002–2008. Having deposits received and administrative expenses as inputs and volume of loans disbursed as output we estimate efficiency scores of all individual building societies as well as calculate the average efficiency in the industry. For this purpose we use two alternative models that allows for constant and variable returns of scale respectively. The results suggest that there is no significant improvement in efficiency of building societies during the estimation period. Furthermore, most of the building societies have not been operating at appropriate size. We also found that Českomoravská stavební spořitelna, a. s. was the most efficient building society in the Czech Republic according to the both models applied. In order to increase efficiency, we suggest reduction in the number of external employees and agents or increase of their productivity, more sophisticated products that can outperform the standard services and effective response to changes in the legislature.

DEA Efficiency Region for Variations of Inputs and Outputs

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Mohammad Khoveyni ◽  
Robabeh Eslami
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Production Possibility ◽  
Dea Efficiency ◽  
Production Possibility Set ◽  
Decision Making Units

Finding efficiency regions (ERs) for extremely efficient decision-making units (DMUs) is one of the important issues from the managerial and economic viewpoints. An extremely efficient DMU will remain efficient if and only if after changing its inputs and/or its outputs this DMU stays within its ER. Thus, by applying the ER information, decision maker(s) of the evaluated extremely efficient DMU can precisely understand the values of input(s) increment and output(s) decrement of this DMU so that it remains efficient. Hence, in this study, we propose a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach based on the defining hyperplanes of the production possibility set (PPS), which is capable of finding the ERs of the DMUs when their inputs increase and/or their outputs decrease. To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach, in the real world, a numerical example and an empirical application to the banking industry in the Czech Republic are provided.

Does the Financial Self-sufficiency of Municipalities Affect Efficiency of the Museums which they Founded? (A Case Study from the Czech Republic)

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Plaček ◽  
František Ochrana ◽  
Milan Půček ◽  
Milan Křápek ◽  
David Špaček
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Financial Data ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

This paper analyzes and discusses the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of museums run by municipalities. It tests the hypothesis that municipalities with higher levels of income self-sufficiency can more efficiently manage museums than municipalities with lower levels of financial self-sufficiency. For our analysis, we used financial data for the years 2015 to analyze the efficiency of museums using data envelopment analysis (DEA). To test the hypothesis about the impact of financial self-sufficiency, we use regression analysis. The results obtained did not confirmed the hypothesis.

scholarly journals The Technical and Allocative Efficiency of the Regional Public Galleries in the Czech Republic

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110092
Author(s):  
Iveta Vrabková ◽  
Jiří Bečica
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Allocative Efficiency ◽  
Malmquist Index ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis Model ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Allocation Efficiency ◽  
Average Efficiency ◽  
Technical And Allocative Efficiency

The regional public galleries in the Czech Republic belong to the most important and the biggest institutions of their kind. The article deals with the assessment of the technical and allocation efficiency of 19 regional public galleries for the period between 2011 and 2015 from the perspective of the static as well as the dynamic efficiency. For the estimation of the efficiency according to the specific inputs and outputs, the Data Envelopment Analysis model and the Malmquist Index were used. In 2015, four galleries were fully technically efficient, and the average efficiency of the set being assessed was 70%. In 2015, in comparison with 2011, 11 public galleries improved their productivity. In 2015, seven galleries reached the full allocation efficiency, and the average efficiency was 90%. In 2015, in comparison with 2011, 12 public galleries improved their efficiency.

scholarly journals Banking Efficiency in Visegrad Countries: A Dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 2085-2091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iveta Palečková
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Banking Efficiency ◽  
Dynamic Data ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Average Efficiency ◽  
Dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Visegrád Countries ◽  
Calculated Average

The aim of the paper is to examine the efficiency of the banking sectors in Visegrad countries during the period 2009–2013. The group of Visegrad countries includes the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. We apply Dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to data on commercial banks in the group of Viserad countries. Next, we calculated average efficiency of the groups of banks according the total assets. Average efficiency was slightly decreased during the period 2010–2011 and significantly decreased in 2012 which was probably as a result of financial crisis. In 2013 average efficiency increased. The Czech and Hungarian banking sector was the highest efficient. Considering the group of banks according total assets, the group of small banks was the most efficient in CCR model and the group of medium-sized banks was the most efficient in BCC model.

AN ECONOMIC COMPARISON OF THE ORDINARY AND LOW-NOISE WEARING COURSE DURING THE LIFETIME OF ROADWAY

Akustika ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (36) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Vítězslav Křivánek ◽  
Petra Marková ◽  
Blanka Hablovičová ◽  
Petr Bíza ◽  
Dana Potužníková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Asphalt Mixture ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
External Costs ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Road Surfaces ◽  
Noise Evaluation ◽  
Road Marking

The article is focused on the economic evaluation of ordinary used asphalt pavement SMA 11 and low-noise wearing course SMA 8 NH (NH is an abbreviation for low-noise). This evaluation is based on the construction costs (including laying the asphalt mixture, horizontal road marking, milling works and maintenance – only special for low-noise wearing courses) and external costs during lifetime of the whole road. Needed inputs for external costs are changes of acoustic parameters of road surfaces in the Czech Republic that are verified by the CPX method. The higher the noise, the higher the external costs. Final costs depend also on the lifetime of a wearing course which is approximately 12 years for SMA 11 and 8 years for SMA 8 NH according to Czech long-term knowledge. OTSKP-SPK (which states the average prices of particular works on roads in the Czech Republic) was used for construction costs and “Methodology of traffic noise evaluation” was used for external costs.

scholarly journals Detection of Microrelief Objects to Impede the Movement of Vehicles in Terrain

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Dohnal ◽  
Martin Hubacek ◽  
Katerina Simkova
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Digital Elevation Models ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Technical Parameters ◽  
Gis Tools ◽  
Digital Elevation

Relief of terrain as a part of the landscape greatly affects the possibilities of vehicles moving off the road. The main influence on the movement is the slope of terrain and the occurrence of microrelief objects. While the slope limits can be easily modeled in the GIS environment, it is difficult to express the effect of the microrelief on the possibilities of moving vehicles. The aim of this work was to find procedures for identification of impassable microrelief objects using GIS tools and precise digital elevation models. Technical parameters defining the ability of a vehicle to overcome microrelief objects are known and these are mainly defined by the dimensions of the vehicle such as a wheel base, a ground clearance, approach angle, and others. Large-scale digital elevation models have not been able to reliably express the location and shape of microrelief objects until recently. Their accuracy of height in nodes achieved meter or decimeter values. The change occurred with the use of airborne laser scanning technology for digital elevation model creation. The accuracy of models created using this technology achieves centimeter values. These can be used for detection of microrelief objects. One of these models is the DMR5 from the territory of the Czech Republic. Its declared total mean height error is 0.18 meters. This model, together with the GIS tools and the technical parameters of individual vehicles, was used to search for such microrelief objects that act as a barrier to movement. Procedures for detecting impassable microrelief objects were created by ArcGIS tools. Modeling tools and mathematical methods were used to create procedures for detection of microrelief objects. These have been applied to selected locations in the Czech Republic. Raster layers representing individual impassable microrelief objects are the result of modeling. The modeling results were verified in the terrain using military vehicles. Field tests confirmed the high reliability of the proposed procedure. Therefore, the calculation process was optimized and will be introduced in the future as one of the input calculations of the complex model of passability in the Army of the Czech Republic.

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