In the Netherlands privatization hardly refers to selling off government property. Public enterprises never played an important role in the Dutch economic system, as economic policies of the Dutch government tended to be attuned to market developments. As far as transportation is concerned, most transport companies owned by the government (i.e.the public transport system) already function at an arm's length distance of public authorities. Selling these companies to the public is hardly feasible. For several years already the governments transportation policies and its privatizations programm share the aim for ''less government, more market''. In the near future this may leas to contracting out of a large portion of the work traditionally done by the Department of Transportation.
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