Deregulating and Privatizing Urban Bus Services
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Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Bus lines
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Bus lines
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Author : Clifford Winston
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815704739
"Proposes experiments in deregulating and privatizing the country's transportation systems to rid them of inefficiencies and significantly improve their performance in moving goods and people around the United States; the book covers roads, airports and airport traffic control, mass transit, intercity buses and railway networks"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Jose Gomez-Ibanez
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815715702
In the last decade many countries turned to private sources to provide services formerly offered by public agencies. Europeans, particularly the British and the French, were leaders in this movement. Developing countries also experimented extensively with privatization in the 1980s, with varying degrees of success. Because governments around the world are heavily involved in transportation, it is a natural focus of privatization experiments and in many ways has been at the cutting edge. Going Private examines the diverse privatization experiences of transportation services and facilities. Cases are drawn from the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Since almost every country has experimented to some degree with highway and bus privatization, the authors focus particularly on these services, although they also discuss urban rail transit and airports. Highways and buses, they explain, encompass all three of the most common and basic forms of privatization: the sale of an existing state-owned enterprise; use of private, rather than public, financing and management for new infrastructure development; and contracting out to private vendors public services previously provided by government employees. After thoroughly examining these services and discussing the motives for, and objections to, privatization, the authors look at the prospects for privatization in other sectors and industries. They assess those circumstances in which privatization is most likely to succeed and those in which it is most likely to fail, for political as well as economic reasons. The authors conclude that privatization involves many political and social as well as economic dimensions. Privatization is usually not simply a matter of efficiency improvements or capital augmentation but also involves such deeply imbedded societal concerns as equity, income transfers, environmental problems, and attitudes toward taxation and the role of government.
Author : John S. Dodgson
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Transportation
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Author : John Robert Meyer
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Bus lines
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Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1996-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313021422
Privatization began in the 1970s with Carter's deregulation of some business, and increased with the Thatcher administration in the United Kingdom, the Reagan administration in the United States, and many communist and socialist countries. One area of concern in privatization is transportation—airports, water ports, roads, and mass transit. Privatization can be implemented in financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the transportation system, the main motives being the belief that the private sector can be more efficient than the public sector, and because public funds are becoming less plentiful for a variety of reasons. The focus is on ideas and innovations for expanding the private role in transportation. Specifically covered are ideas and innovations for expanding the role of private sector in U.S. transportation projects, private financing of urban transportation, airport privatization, water port improvement, toll roads, and competitive contracting for transit services. The distinguished list of contributors includes the co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economics, William Vickrey. The audience for the work are scholars dealing with the discussions concerning the economics and politics of privatization, business people who are likely to be interested in potential opportunities, governmental regulators and staff, and policy makers.
Author : Antonio Estache
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Buses
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Author : International Transport Forum
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2008-10-23
Category :
ISBN : 9282102009
Examines experience in integrating private management and capital with public transport policy objectives in a number of developed economies.
Author : Bill Bradshaw
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780312232733
02 This book is based on a seminar held at Oxford University in September 1997. It took place following the election of the first Labour government for 17 years and following the announcement of the consultation process leading up the publication of a Transport White Paper. The seminar sought to address the somewhat contradictory situation of a government of the left inheriting a transport industry largely privatized and deregulated, but unwilling to commit itself either to the expense of re-nationalization or to finding the large sums of money needed for investment in public infrastructure and facilities. The debate reflects views on the legacy of the previous administration and on the challenges facing the new government. The chapters contain a mix of expert academic, regulatory body and industry viewpoints on bus, freight, airline and train industries. Most, but not all, start from an economic regulation perspective. This book is based on a seminar held at Oxford University in September 1997. It took place following the election of the first Labour government for 17 years and following the announcement of the consultation process leading up the publication of a Transport White Paper. The seminar sought to address the somewhat contradictory situation of a government of the left inheriting a transport industry largely privatized and deregulated, but unwilling to commit itself either to the expense of re-nationalization or to finding the large sums of money needed for investment in public infrastructure and facilities. The debate reflects views on the legacy of the previous administration and on the challenges facing the new government. The chapters contain a mix of expert academic, regulatory body and industry viewpoints on bus, freight, airline and train industries. Most, but not all, start from an economic regulation perspective.
Author : José A. Gómez-Ibáñez
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Bus lines
ISBN :