This paper tries to construct a performance evaluation procedure for highway buses with the financial ratio taken into consideration. First, a conceptual framework is redeveloped, based on the one created by Fielding et al ., to help form evaluation items and performance indicators involving...

The paper evaluates and compares the operational performance of ten major airports in Taiwan. The measure of operational performance is based on the relationship between four factors: airport, passengers, airline companies, and fire services. To overcome the restrictions of the small sample...

Many scholars have suggested the relationship between corporate social performance and its ability to attract a large number of high-quality job applicants, because previous literature indicates that employees with strong social awareness help create a high-performance organization. For that...

An important issue for successful recruitment is to increase the pursuit intention of job seekers. This study discusses such issue by proposing a research model based on the signaling theory and the expectancy theory. In the model, this study hypothesizes that the perceived corporate social...

Recent-rising crude oil prices have impacted on the development of the air-freight industry making improved service quality and competitiveness— pressing issues for management. To examine the performance of China Airlines this paper employs quality function deployment to integrate inside...

The dynamic and multi-objective programming is used here to establish a risk measurement model. We develop an iterative algorithm and the convergence conditions for the model solution. The results obtained from the model developed here show that the sum of the interactive utility value (IUV)...

The liberalization of international air transport services in the USA and European countries and the competition from nearby Asian countries have forced Taiwan to adjust its air transport policies and regulations. This paper proposes to raise some relevant questions about regulatory changes in...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper develops a royalty negotiation model based on the operating quantity of Build, Operate, and Transfer (BOT) projects for both government and the private sector using a bi-level programming (BLP) approach. The royalty negotiation is one of many critical negotiation items of a...

Effects of price promotions for high-speed rail (HSR) on the choice behaviours of potential consumers are analysed for public transit marketing purposes. A questionnaire survey, with 300 valid samples collected from private vehicle drivers with long-distance trips through freeways, is conducted....

Road networks are instrumental in resource allocation and preevacuation, and profoundly affect disaster response and recovery, particularly emergent-disaster logistics and island rescues. Disruptions to road networks impair daily operations, irrespective of whether they are damaged by external...