The Korea Local Administration Review

The purpose of this study is to present a standard model of operating cost of public sports facilities in Gyeonggi-do for the purpose of rationalizing the decision-making by local governments. It will be also presented to generalize the standard model of operating cost using the regression modeling. Finally, we will verify whether the economy of scale is shown on operating cost per unit area(㎡).
The results are as follows. First, based on empirical data, sports facilities in Gyeonggi-do were classifed into four categories: ①Rental-oriened facilities without instrructors, ②Small facilities without pool, ③Small facilities with pool, ④Large facilities with pool. Second, we presented the standard model of operating cost by those 4 categories. Third, we presented generalized standard model of operating cost using regression modeling, and confirmed the presence of the economy of scale in operating cost per unit area.
By presenting the standard model of operating cost for sports facilities in this study, it is expected to contribute to rationalizing of public investment decision making process such as local investment appraisal system, feasibility study, cost-benefit anaylsis for sports facilities.