ATLET - Transaction costs, key player strategies and operator efficiency in urban passenger transport
Overview
Background & policy context:
The current European context of industry and public service reform, together with debates over the effectiveness of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), has led to an acute need to analyse the French model for the organisation of urban transport provision. The variety of ways of organising passenger transport allows the performance of alternative organisational and contractual practices to be compared, and thus answer questions from the theocrat's and decision maker's perspective.
Objectives:
This research aimed to establish a link between the regulatory practices put into place in each urban transport network and the observable results in terms of service.
The analysis also aimed to measure the relative effectiveness of different networks with reference to the institutional configurations bringing together contracts between organising authorities and transport operators. These may be explicit (formal) contracts or implicit contracts (informal understandings, etc).
Methodology:
The research is founded on the common analysis of a database characterising the urban transport networks in France (from the GART - Grouping of French Authorities Responsible for Transport, CERTU - the French public study centre for urban and transport issues, and UTP - the French Union of Public Transport operators) and urban transport contracts.
After having defined how performance can be measured in this sector, the study undertakes an econometric treatment aimed at determining the influence of types of contracts. The results and the treatments are discussed in the framework of a working seminar bringing together representatives from public transport authorities, other public administrations and operators, with the objective of testing and then enriching working hypotheses.
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