A light-touch regulation model for public transit in small cities.

Author(s)
Guilherme de Aragão, J. Santos, E. Orrico Filho, R. & Lima Neto, O.
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Abstract

In the rule, regulatory frameworks developed for major cities, which foresee rigid "public service" concepts, are simply transferred to the smaller ones without any deeper regard for their appropriateness, producing important inefficiencies. Frequently, the services in these cities are operated in an unreliable manner by a single large monopoly company. The present paper envisages to develop an alternative light regulation approach which may be adapted even to legal systems where public transit is ruled by the public service approach, i.e. where the entry is controlled and submitted to tendering procedures. By this model, the entry shall be submitted to a previous tendering procedure which does only reject operators which do not comply to the least performance and management standards, but the operators are free to determine the line, its frequencies and fare prices. The paper describes further details of the model and develops its application in a Brazilian case study. For the covering abstract see ITRD E116619.

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C 25705 (In: C 25667) /10 /72 / ITRD E116657
Source

In: Urban mobility for all : proceedings of the 10th international CODATU conference, held in Lomé, Togo, 12-15 November 2002, p. 419-424, 6 ref.

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