Management Information Systems in Local Public Transport
This paper describes how, until the early sixties, public transport was seen as an economic activity and mostly run at a normal profit. The fast growing popularity of the private car has resulted in a sharp decline of the demand for both public transport and huge deficits in operations. At the same time it was acknowledged that the massive use of private cars had many negative aspects and that public transport could be an alternative to the use of the private car. This has led to a policy of stimulating public transport and subsidizing its deficits, and as a consequence the central government of Holland now pays the integral deficits of public transport, in which local public transport plays an important part.
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Corporate Authors:
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
P.O. Box 566
The Hague, Netherlands -
Authors:
- van der Woude, N H
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Conference:
- Transport Decisions in an Age of Uncertainty. Proceedings of the Third World Conference on Transport Research
- Location: Rotterdam , Netherlands
- Date: 1997-4-26 to 1997-4-28
- Publication Date: 1977
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 472-477
- Monograph Title: Transport Decisions in an Age of Uncertainty
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Deficits; Information dissemination; Information services; Information technology; Management; Operating subsidies; Public transit; Transit operating agencies
- Geographic Terms: Netherlands
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01085054
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9024720613
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 28 2008 8:15AM