THE MARTA CODE OF ETHICS: "CONFLICT BETWEEN...PRIVATE INTERESTS AND PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITIES..."

This report deals with MARTA's experience with its Code of Ethics. In this case study, emphasis is placed on: (1) the development of the Code, which highlights major issues to be confronted; (2) a test of the Code, which illustrates how its prescriptions were applied in practice; (3) the details of the Code in Appendix 1, which provides the full text of the minimum ethical standards to be applied within MARTA, as well as numerous examples of what the Code intends to prescribe and prohibit; and (4) the Rules of the Board of Ethics in Appendix 2. (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:
  • Golembiewski, R T
• Publication Date: 1979-7

Media Info

• Pagination: 41 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Coding systems; Conflict of interest; Contracts; Employment; Ethics; Guidelines; Legal factors; Management; Policy; Professional employment; Rapid transit; Transportation operations
• Identifier Terms: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
• Old TRIS Terms: Management policies; Transportation administration
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Railroads; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00331233
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-GA-11-0006-81-7
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 15 1982 12:00AM