The Need for Public Transport in Rural Areas

The objectives of this paper are to review what is known about the provision of public transport in rural areas of developed countries, the transport problems that are perceived to exist in them, and the efforts that are being made to solve these problems. There are naturally differences in the approaches that are being adopted – though surprisingly few in the trials being undertaken – and it will be argued that these are few, in fact, no fully perceived differences in the precise nature of the problem that is being dealt with. One feature that appears to be common, however, is a lack of any objective measure of what constitutes a rural area for the purpose of definition of a rural transport policy.

• Corporate Authors:

  Gower Publishing Company

  Gower House, Croft Road
  Aldershot, Hampshire  United Kingdom  GU11 3HR
• Authors:
  • Hitchcock, A
• Conference:
  • Transport Research for Social and Economic Progress. Proceedings of the Second World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: London , England
  • Date: 1980-4-14 to 1980-4-17
• Publication Date: 1981

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 298-309
• Monograph Title: Transport Research for Social and Economic Progress

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Developing countries; Policy; Policy making; Policy, legislation and regulation; Public transit; Rural areas; Rural development; Rural highways; Socioeconomic development; Transit operating agencies
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01082463
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 18 2007 11:29AM