Delivering value for money to government through efficient and effective public transit service continuity: some thoughts

• Autor(a) principal: Hensher, David A.
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Yvrande‐Billon, Anne, Macário, Rosário, Preston, John, White, Peter, Tyson, Bill, Velde, D. M. Van de, Wee, Bert van, Aragão, Joaquim José Guilherme de, Santos, Enilson Medeiros dos, Orrico Filho, Rômulo Dante, Hensher, David
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/30486
• topic: Reform agenda; Public transit

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