NEEDED: A MORE PROGRESSIVE, LESS DEFEATIST ATTITUDE TO PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The author suggests that the recent failings of public transport policy have been due to particular factors which will not necessarily persist. Factors considered include the slow delivery of buses, cheap petrol, a poor image and slow progress in urban rail programmes which have proved important in Europe. The author attacks proposals suggested in a previous article and puts forward his own ideas on how a smaller and more efficient bus fleet should be managed to stay within the government's reduced subsidy limits. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  IPC Building and Contract Journals Limited

  32 Southwark Bridge Road
  London SE1 9EX,   England 
• Authors:
  • White, P
• Publication Date: 1976-5-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 13-14
• Serial:
  • Surveyor - Public Authority Technology
  • Volume: 147
  • Issue Number: 4378
  • Publisher: IPC Building and Contract Journals Limited

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Buses; Costs; Economic efficiency; Finance; Financing; Fuels; Petroleum; Policy; Public transit; Railroad transportation; Railroads; Subsidies; Transportation; Transportation policy; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Railway
• ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 224: Cost; 5911: Efficiency; 244: Financing; 3850: Fuel; 173: Policy; 744: Public transport; 8119: United Kingdom; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Energy; Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00138953
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 17 1981 12:00AM