Public transport provision requires substantial organisational efforts, careful planning,
financial contributions from the public, and coordination between millions of passengers and …

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of
economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of …

This paper reviews the development of thought on the major issues in transit economics
over the last 50 years, in developed and developing countries. Some issues–the analysis of …

This paper derives empirically tractable formulas for the welfare effects of fare adjustments in
passenger peak and off-peak rail and bus transit, and for optimal pricing of those services …

The interplay between congestion and crowding externalities in the design of urban bus
systems is identified and analysed. A multimodal social welfare maximisation model with …

This paper analyzes the efficiency of and the substitutability between three urban congestion
management policies: transit subsidization, car congestion pricing, and dedicated bus lanes …

We assess the empirical relevance of the new theory of regulation, using a principal-agent
framework to study the regulatory schemes used in the French urban transport industry …

Fare-free public transportation has recently gained attention from policymakers and has
been proposed as a measure to reduce pollution and road congestion in several cities …

Microeconomic optimisation of scheduled public transport operations has traditionally
focused on finding optimal values for the frequency of service, capacity of vehicles, number …

The paper examines welfare improving revenue neutral marginal policy reforms for an
economy with non-identical individuals and an externality with a feedback on the …