Delivering Value for Money to Government through Efficient and Effective Public Transit Service Continuity: Some Thoughts
This paper documents some thoughts on the reform agenda in public transit that is occurring throughout the world. The specific focus is on a growing commitment to competitive regulation through competitive tendering, and the efforts by a few governments (notably in Australia) to take control of the tangible assets used by private operators as a mechanism to exercise the opportunity, if so taken, to put services out to competitive tender. The paper reviews the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on contracting regimes and asset ownership, and the role that government and the operator might play in a setting in which building trusting and collaborative partnerships has merit in delivering services that are in the main funded from the public purse.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis
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Authors:
- Hensher, David A
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Discussers:
- Yvrande-Billon, Anne
- Macario, Rosario
- Preston, John
- White, Peter
- Tyson, Bill
- Van de Velde, D M
- van Wee, Bert
- Guilherme de Aragao, Joaquim Jose
- Publication Date: 2007-7
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 411-448
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Serial:
- Transport Reviews
- Volume: 27
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISSN: 0144-1647
- EISSN: 1464-5327
- Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ttrv20
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Competition; Contracting; Empirical methods; Governments; Ownership; Private enterprise; Public private partnerships; Public transit; Regulation; Tenders; Theory; Transit operating agencies
- Geographic Terms: Australia
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01055184
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Aug 17 2007 1:17PM