The study of transportation involves researchers trained in many disciplines, including
engineering, economics, geography, planning, business, and regional science …

This article reviews the literature on current “best practice” principles for planning public
transport (PT) networks within the context of planners seeking to transition their cities toward …

The performance of a sample of French urban transit companies is evaluated using a broad
selection of nonparametric reference technologies for two specifications of the production …

The British bus industry is examined in light of fundamental reform in ownership and
regulation. The industry is divided between privately and publicly owned companies, with …

Authority intervention in the public transport sector has a long history and has led to a
growing corps of legal texts in European countries. These texts are often divergent, if not …

Die Öffnung von Netzsektoren für den Wettbewerb ist in Deutschland derzeit in vollem
Gange, nachdem diese Branchen über lange Zeit durch entsprechende gesetzliche …

This paper provides an overview of some of the most salient recent evolutions in the fields of
organisational forms and competition in the European public transport industry. It focuses …

In this research, aiming at understanding relationships between competence distributions for
public transport among various stakeholders such as public bodies and operators, and …

This paper concerns itself with the question of the forces behind privitisation and regulatory
reform in local public transport in Europe. Two different approaches to the explanation of the …

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1 Dormant Period: From the Treaty of Rome 1957 to the Late 1980s................... 2 1.1. 2 A …