TY - JOUR
T1 - Delivering value for money to government through efficient and effective public transit service continuity
T2 - Some thoughts
AU - Hensher, David A.
AU - Yvrande-Billon, Anne
AU - Macério, Rosério
AU - Preston, John
AU - White, Peter
AU - Tyson, Bill
AU - Van de Velde, D. M.
AU - van Wee, Bert
AU - de Aragéo, Joaquim José Guilherme
AU - dos Santos, Enilson Medeiros
AU - Filho, Rómulo Dante Orrico
AU - Hensher, David
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34447336153&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01441640701192351
DO - 10.1080/01441640701192351
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34447336153
SN - 0144-1647
VL - 27
SP - 411
EP - 448
JO - Transport Reviews: a transnational, transdisciplinary journal
JF - Transport Reviews: a transnational, transdisciplinary journal
IS - 4
ER -