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The Relative Efficiency of Public and Private Bus Companies?
Published 2001-01-01By applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this study examines the efficiency of a subset of Norwegian bus companies in order to test the hypothesis that public companies are less efficient than private ones. DEA consists ...Open AccessConference paper -
TRESIS: A Transportation, Land Use and Environmental Strategy Impact Simulator for Urban Areas
Published 2001-01-01The Institute of Transport Studies has recently developed a Transportation and Environment Strategy Impact Simulator (TRESIS) as a decision support system to assist planners to predict the impact of transport strategies ...Open AccessConference paper -
Regulation, Competition and Technical Efficiency in Bus Public Transport: Discussing the Case of the Metropolitan Area of San José, Costa Rica
Published 2001-01-01In the last two decades the relative roles of regulation and competition in promoting efficiency in urban bus industry has emerged as a central theme in both technical and academic debate. Empirical studies have concentrated ...Open AccessConference paper -
Public Transport by Vans: Facts, Meaning and Perspectives of its Presence in Brazilian Cities
Published 2001-01-01Until five years ago the scene of public transport in Brazilian cities was dominated by privately operated buses under local protective regulation. From 1996 on, however, this scene begun to change by the emergence of vans ...Open AccessConference paper -
Competitive Tendering for Bus Services: The Improved Adelaide Model
Published 2001-01-01In 1994 the Government of South Australia initiated a process to contract out scheduled bus services in metropolitan Adelaide. The services, which currently involve use of about 760 buses that carry 47 million passengers ...Open AccessConference paper -
Economic Incentives to Increase Public Transport Patronage – The Theory and the Practice
Published 2001-01-01This paper reports on an innovative policy for central government funding to local passenger transport services in New Zealand, that ties funding directly to performance. The new policy, known as Patronage Funding, was ...Open AccessConference paper -
Towards Innovation in Public Transport Tendering in the Netherlands
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The Use and Efficiency of Public Transport : The Effects of Price and Service Measures
Published 2001-01-01Like in many other countries in the Netherlands, , the government of the Nethertlands assigns public transport an important role in its transport policy. However, the costs of public transport do exceed the revenues of it. ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Disability discrimination Act and Developments in Accessible Public Transport in the UK
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A cost effeciency approach to universal access for public transport for disabled people
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A Tale of Seven Cities: Subsidy Reductions in Norwegian Public Transport
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Creation of Express Bus Services to Improve Competitive Edge for Public Transport in Møre og Romsdal County.
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Regulation Policy in Land Passenger Transportation in Europe
Published 2001-01-01This paper draws on a number of projects undertaken recently for the European Commission. It reviews the changing regulatory policies toward bus, coach and rail travel in the member states of the European Union. It is found ...Open AccessConference paper -
An Evaluation Of Competitive Tendering In The Ferry Sector In Norway
Published 2001-01-01Fjord crossings by car ferries constitute a vital part of the Norwegian trunk road system. The current subsidy scheme is considered to provide insufficient incentives for cost efficiency however. As a consequence, tender ...Open AccessConference paper -
Designing Incentive Schemes for Public Transport
Published 2001-01-01In 1999 the Hordaland County Council decided that the county should introduce so-called ”quality contracts” for public transport in the county. The main idea of this type of contract is that decisions on the level of service ...Open AccessConference paper -
Design of New Financing Schemes for Urban Public Transport
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Competition In Urban Public Transport A World View
Published 2001-01-01Over the past 15 years, a number of nations and urban areas have converted part or all of their public transport systems to competitive mechanisms. At the same time, the competitive market has provided public transport ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Evolution of Organisational Forms in European Public Transport
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The Role of Decision Support Systems (DSS) in Transportation
Published 2001-01-01In line with EU regulations, the Italian Government started the reform of public local transport in order to transfer competences to Regional and Local Administrations and to move to a competitive tendering system. To ...Open AccessConference paper