Nash, C and Smith, A orcid.org/0000-0003-3668-5593 (2020) Public Transport Procurement in Britain. Research in Transportation Economics, 81. 100847. ISSN 0739-8859
Abstract
Britain is one of the countries with the most experience of alternative ways of procuring public transport services. From a situation where most public transport services were provided by publicly owned companies, it has moved to a situation where most are private. Long distance bus services, most local bus services outside London and a small number of rail services are left to commercial operators to provide without regulation on a purely commercial basis. Most rail services, bus services in London and subsidised bus services elsewhere are competitively tendered by central or local government. In the bus industry, both forms of competition have substantially reduced costs, but competitive tendering of services planned by local authorities has been the more successful in boosting patronage. On the other hand, on the rail system, whilst competitive tendering has again gone hand in hand with a large rise in usage, it has also been accompanied by a large rise in costs. Some possible reasons for this difference are considered, but it does appear that caution should be exercised when transferring lessons from one mode to the other.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Research in Transportation Economics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Bus; Rail; Franchising; Competitive tendering; Competition |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Economics and Discrete Choice (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 May 2020 08:41 |
Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2022 14:23 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.retrec.2020.100847 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:159839 |
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