Cost Effectiveness: A Systems Approach to Analysis of Urban Services
- 1 September 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Institute of Planners
- Vol. 34 (5) , 303-311
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01944366808977549
Abstract
In the process of diffusion from the federal government into local governments, both PPBS and systems analysis face technical and staff support problems. Quantifying and relating urban service objectives with the costs and benefits of alternate solutions is extremely difficult for public agencies lacking a price mechanism. One promising approach is cost-effectiveness, which relates output to achievement of objectives, without necessarily describing output in dollars. Typically, government service measures of effectiveness have been replaced by performance measures or standards. Problems of these kinds of measures are discussed and suggestions are made for new types of measures.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: