Competition and ownership in land passenger transport selected papers from the 9th International Conference (Thredbo 9), Lisbon, September 2005 (Elsevier, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references
Cover -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Section 1. Overview on competition and ownership in land passenger transport -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Design and Innovation of Competitive Public Transport to foster Patronage -- Contract Design and Implementation Issues -- Creating and Maintaining Trusting Partnerships -- Key Performance Indicators and Data for Monitoring and Auditing -- Competition, Regulatory change and Ownership -- Institutional configuration and framework as a driver for system performance -- Policy evolution and decision making process -- Chapter 2 Looking forward: What comes next in competition and ownership of land passenger transport? -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Competitive intrusion, incentives and outcomes -- 3. Key drivers of change -- 4. Growing patronage -- 5. The real competition -- The car: Charging for car use is coming and quicker than you think -- 6. Viability and globalisation --
- 7. Sharing risk and rewards -- 8. Some technology is good -- But there are caveats -- 9. The potential of public transport to serve future generations of the elderly -- 10. The STO framework -- Always with US -- References -- Section 2. Innovation in governance, planning and service design -- Chapter 3 Transport and governance: Co-decision and power sharing -- 1. Introduction: Why are some transport policy problems so hard to solve? -- 2. The main factors of difficult governance in transport -- 3. Multiple legitimate perspectives, need to accept compromise -- 4. Leadership and consistency -- 5. Why isn't this done more often? -- References -- Chapter 4 Creative problem solving in developing countries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Affordability of fares -- 3. Inability to finance appropriate vehicles -- 4. "Destructive competition" -- 5. Overcrowding -- 6. Operating behavior -- 7. Failure to provide social services -- 8. Road congestion -- 9. Conclusions --
- Chapter 5 Reorganisation of processes to gain competitive advantages: The case of rail 2000 and beyond -- Abstract -- 1. Background -- 2. Rail 2000 -- 3. New challenges -- 4. Needs and solutions -- 5. The new system -- 6. Conclusions -- Section 3. Regulatory reform -- Chapter 6 Regulation and competition in the European land transport industry: Recent evolutions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of main trends -- 3. European legal framework -- 4. Comments on the pending European legal framework -- 5. Concluding observations: Is everything permitted? -- References -- Chapter 7 Reform of European passenger railways -- Where do we stand? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Legislation -- 4. What has actually happened? -- 5. Competition in passenger services -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Section 4. Institutional configurations and frameworks -- Chapter 8 Metropolitan planning organizations in the United States -- Issues and challenges -- Introduction --
- Metropolitan planning organizations -- Structure and function -- A changing MPO role -- Current and emerging MPO issues -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Reestructuring, regulation and institutional design: A fitness problem