MARTA ACQUIRES THE ATLANTA TRANSIT SYSTEM: WHO ASSIMILATED WHOM, AND TO WHAT DEGREE

In 1971, an agreement was made with the Atlanta Transit System (ATS) and MARTA for the purchase of ATS, which was at that time, a privately-owned bus company. Basically, this case study addresses important questions about this MARTA acquisition. The questions focus on the character and degree of integration of the two initially-separate organizations. This case deals with this one subtle aspect of the ATS acquisition, whose resolution was anything but clear at the time of purchase, as the authors point out. Numerous questions relate to this target-aspect, but a few bare illustrations suffice to suggest the broader universe. Just how would ATS be absorbed into MARTA? In what ways, and in what degrees? This report discusses these issues in detail. (UMTA)

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Georgia, Athens

  College of Business Administration
  Athens, GA  United States  30602

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Miller, G J
  • Golembiewski, R T
• Publication Date: 1979-7

Media Info

• Pagination: 36 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Case studies; Consolidations; Coordination; Management; Policy; Private transportation; Property acquisition; Public transit; Rapid transit; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Identifier Terms: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
• Uncontrolled Terms: Acquisition; Integrated transportation systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Management policies
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Railroads; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00331225
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-GA11-0006-81-17
• Contract Numbers: GA-11-0006
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 15 1982 12:00AM