ISSUES IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

This is the report on a conference held in July 1972. At the first general session, discussion focused on problems in the entire field of public transportation. The second session, on the financing of public transportation, covered collective bargaining, subsidies, fare-box revenues, and the interrelation of service costs, quality, and quantity. The third session covered operations, the fourth session covered marketing, and the fifth covered the role of the professional in developing strategies and his relation to the administrator.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of a conference held by the Highway Research Board at Henniker, New Hampshire, July 9-14, 1972. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Conference:
  • Conference on Issues in Public Transportation
  • Location: Henniker New Hampshire, United States
  • Date: 1972-7-9 to 1972-7-14
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 130 p.
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 144
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuter service; Governments; Passenger service; Planning; Policy; Rapid transit; Subsidies; Urban transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Government planning; Government policies
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00054755
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: #144 Spec Rpt
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 24 1981 12:00AM