MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS IN THE 1980S: THE EMERGENCE OF PARAPRIVATE TRANSPORTATION
Management of public transportation systems in the 1980s will be a major challenge for urban areas. Their operating scenarios, financial support, and general feasibility will be severely tested. The present heavy subsidy of transit is not expected to continue. Just as much of the U.S. industry has had to specialize its product offerings in a competitive market place, so will transit systems. This will mean the expansion of paratransit activities and the inclusion of paraprivate transportation options. This paper attempts to assist public transportation officials in thinking through their innovative alternatives and provide the rationale for the alternatives they adopt. How these newer, specialized forms of public tkransportation alternatives are integrated into existing traditional transit operations will be the major managerial and official focus for much of this decade. Those areas that are successful in broadening their concept of public transportation to include these innovations will breathe new life and vitality into their local transportation systems. Those who do not will continue to teeter from one financial crisis to another. Clearly, public transportation officials at all levels need to ask themselves, "What are we trying to do?", and restructure to accomplish these goals. We can no longer continue to use nineteenth-century work rules and early twentieth-century technology as we stumble toward the twenty-first century. (Author)
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Authors:
- Mundy, Ray A
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Conference:
- 60th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
- Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
- Date: 1981-1-12 to 1981-1-16
- Publication Date: 1981
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 62-66
- Monograph Title: Transit planning and management
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 797
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Coordination; Marketing; Paratransit services; Public transit; Technological innovations; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
- Uncontrolled Terms: Integrated transportation systems
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00341784
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309032113
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Dec 22 1981 12:00AM