PUBLIC TRANSPORT "IN THE MARKET"?
OPENBAAR VERVOER IN DE MARKT?
In an open economy the rising of production costs can be tempered by improving the productivity and/or using the advantages of international trade. In the field of e.g. Public transport, national health, education and public housing it is quite obvious that there is a lack of possibilities. These sectors therefore tend to move from the market sector to the public sector where a national government has to deal with the problem of raising money to finance these sectors. As the need for money tends to rise more strongly than the market sector can bear there is a structural tendency to spend more money than available. That is why the Dutch government had to temporize its policy in the field of collective care. There is a need for better conditions for an integrated traffic and transport policy. Environmental planning and the planning of public transport are subjects which should be dealt with in one planning structure. Systems of criteria for the levels of service could be used as a distribution system for the money available. Tariffs should be used more as an instrument of financing public transport but tariff policy in public transport should be part of a general policy in the field of rising prices of collective goods to reach a new equilibrium. Public transport operators can contribute to control the rising of public transport costs if they could operate as if they were operating a company in the market sector. (TRRL)
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Corporate Authors:
Netherlands Institute of Transport
Polakweg 13
2288 GG Rijswijk, Netherlands -
Authors:
- RAT, J W
- Publication Date: 1983
Language
- Dutch
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 339-348
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Serial:
- TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR VERVOERSWETENSCHAP
- Volume: 19
- Issue Number: 4
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Economic factors; Economics; Fares; Federal government; Level of service; Operating costs; Policy; Productivity; Public transit; Subsidies; Tariffs; Transportation; Transportation policy
- Geographic Terms: Netherlands; United States
- Old TRIS Terms: National transportation policies
- ITRD Terms: 263: Economics of transport; 183: Government (national); 653: Level of service; 8078: Netherlands; 221: Operating costs; 173: Policy; 744: Public transport; 241: Tariff
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00386195
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 30 1984 12:00AM