HOLIDAY TRIPS: CONVENIENCE, EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS

Mobile Ticketing for Public Transportation: Convenience, Efficiency, and Revenue

Reuse of haemodialysis equipment: convenience and cost effectiveness.

The shortage of resources for providing renal replacement makes it essential to reduce revenue costs wherever possible. Assuming that haemodialysis is likely to remain a mainstay of renal replacement, a policy of reusing the expensive disposable dialysers and blood lines could offer substantial cost savings. Such reuse has been shown to be safe and to maintain efficiency, but it must also take ...

Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity

Health is perceived as most precious good, and people feel its vulnerability. Societies have been trying to absorb, ameliorate or compensate consequences and health risks with varying emphasis and varying success. Due to the uniqueness of good health to a persons’ ability to live the life he or she wants, health care and performance of health care systems are under critical observation. In this...

Car Use Behavioral Study for Commuting Trips: Parents’ Work Trips and Children’s School Trips

Negative consequences of car use along with deficiencies for investment in environmental friendly modes, have driven authorities to search for soft measure in order to encourage people for modal shift. The main objective of this study is to propose a model which describes car use behavior on parents’ work trips and how this relates to mode choice regarding their children’s school trips. A quest...

Measuring Relative Efficiency and Effectiveness

The performance of an organization is a function of its efficiency and effectiveness. Efficiency is the degree to which inputs are used to produce outputs. Effectiveness is the degree to which organizational goals are met. Efficiency provides a starting point for our discussion, as it continues to be an active area of research. Efficiency is defined as the ratio of total output to total input. ...