PRIVATE ENTERPRISE IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: THE CASE OF THE TAXI INDUSTRY

The use of taxi firms as public transportation contractors represents an alternative approach to public service provision. Rather than transform private enterprise into a public organization for transportation service delivery, like the mass transit industry, this approach retains the private sector character of the public transportation provider and allows for many of its activities to be purely private market oriented. The increasing use of taxi firms as public transportation providers raises two important questions. First, does this particular use of private enterprise by the public sector make possible more cost-effective public transportation services? Second, will this development help maintain an economically viable private sector taxi capability? This paper presents an analysis aimed at helping to provide answers to these questions. Subjects covered include historical background, performance of taxi firms, financial impacts, labor and legal impacts, and others.

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  https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021808590?urlappend=%3Bseq=247
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• Corporate Authors:

  Eno Transportation Foundation

  1250 I Street, NW, Suite 750
  Washington, DC  United States  20005
• Authors:
  • Teal, R
• Publication Date: 1985-4

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 235-252
• Serial:
  • Transportation Quarterly
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
  • ISSN: 0278-9434

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway transportation; Industrial economics; Paratransit services; Private enterprise; Public transit; Taxicab companies; Taxicabs
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00399685
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1996 12:00AM