Thredbo 15: Recent submissions
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Coopetition between commercial and subsidized railway services – the case of the greater Stockholm region
Published 2017-01-01An important ingredient of the deregulation of the Swedish railway system is the increased involvement of public actors on the local and regional level in the provision of railway services. The subsidized local and regional ...Conference paper -
An analysis on institutional preparedness to bus route tendering in the context of a fragmented liberalized market: case study of Harare, Zimbabwe
Published 2017-01-01In many cities of the developed world, the previously public owned and subsidized bus operators which provided services with minimal exposure to competition have been deregulated. Literature suggests that deregulation ...Open AccessConference paper -
Financial implications of specifying service quality in public transport service contracts with a large captive user base – the case of South Africa
Published 2017-01-01Improved service quality is increasingly acknowledged as critical for increased patronage of public transport services. However, in markets characterised by large proportions of captive public transport users, typically ...Open AccessConference paper -
Local public transport in Russia: regulation, ownership and competition
Published 2017-01-01This workshop paper is motivated by the evolution of relations between public transport authorities and public transport operators all over the world. So far, however, there has been little discussion about this phenomenon ...Open AccessConference paper -
Do Direct Awards Lead to Better Public Transport?
Published 2017-01-01The best public transport with regard to patronage numbers operates in Switzerland: Zurich and Bern, for instance, achieve a public transport demand that is several times higher than in other European cities of their size. ...Conference paper