PARATRANSIT REGULATORY REVISIONS: WHAT ARE WE LEARNING?

This session consists of six presentations in which the effects are debated of the relaxation of regulations affecting taxicabs and other paratransit modes, particularly in regard to allowing open entry and removing restrictions on setting fares. The first presentation provides the results of a theoretical and empirical analysis of paratransit regulation, concluding that there is no economic justification for many of the existing regulations. The following three presentations examine the recent real-world experience with relaxation of regulations in Seattle, San Diego, and Arizona, finding mixed results. In the fifth presentation it is concluded that the results of regulatory revisions have often been disappointing and ways are suggested in which planners and decision makers considering regulatory reform can set and achieve more realistic goals. In the final presentation, a representative of the taxicab industry argues against open entry and market-determined fares, but in favor of more flexible entry and fare standards.

• Record URL:
  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/trr/1986/1103/1103-001.pdf
• Summary URL:
  • https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=PARATRANSIT+REGULATORY+REVISIONS%3A+WHAT+ARE+WE+LEARNING%3F&author=R.+Kirby&publication_year=1986
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Paratransit. 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.
• Authors:
  • Kirby, Ronald F
• Publication Date: 1986

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: p 1
• Monograph Title: Taxicabs
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1103
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deregulation; Fares; Paratransit services; Taxicabs
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00473290
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309041244
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 30 1988 12:00AM