STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT APPROACH TO MEETING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEEDS

This paper questions many of the assumptions that are implicit in the provision of transportation, and suggests that it is often the public transportation providers themselves who, in an effort to preserve traditional organizatoins and procedures, are the root cause of high transportation costs and unresponsiveness. The paper examines concepts in organizational behavior, and suggests that public bodies will begin to use current military and business logistic concepts to make transportation service delivery more attuned to the evolving needs of constituents.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  Department of Marketing, Logistics and Transportation
  Knoxville, TN  United States  37996-0530
• Authors:
  • DAVIS, F W
• Publication Date: 1984-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 41 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Cost effectiveness; Economic efficiency; Institutional issues; Public transit
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00450282
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-SRP-85-4
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 27 2004 8:59PM