Submissions from 2023
The impact of ownership and contractual practice on the technical efficiency level of the public transport operators: An international comparison, Foued Aloulou and Imen Ghannouchi
Optimization and public transport tendering: a case study in Southern Italy, Vincenzo Corvello, Roberto Musmanno, Giuseppe Pavone, Francesco Santoro, and Francesca Vocaturo
Innovation in stable competitive tendering regimes: An insoluble knot?, Lisa Hansson, Malin Aldenius, Alexander Paulsson, Karin Thoresson, and Birgitta Vitestam
All things must pass? Recent changes to competition and ownership in public transport in Great Britain., John Preston
Has collaboration contributed to goal achievement in Swedish public transport?, Roger Pyddoke and Karin Thoresson
Submissions from 2022
Cost Drivers of Electric Bus Contracts: Analysis of 33 Indian Cities, Ravi Gadepalli, Sushmitha Gumireddy, and Prateek Bansal
Compensation and coordination mechanisms on China's railway public transportation service, Daqing Gong, Long Ren, Shifeng Liu, and Xiaojie Yan
Is it time for a new bus contract procurement model under a zero emissions bus setting?, David A. Hensher
Traffic safety in bus transport: An analysis of Norway’s largest transit authority’s contract requirements to bus companies, Tor-Olav Nævestad, Rune Elvik, Vibeke Milch, Katrine Karlsen, and Ross Phillips
Submissions from 2021
Does the measured performance of bus operators depend on the index chosen to assess reliability in contracts? An analysis of bus headway variability, Javiera Godachevich and Alejandro Tirachini
The case for negotiated contracts under the transition to a green bus fleet, David A. Hensher
Optimal quality incentive scheme design in contracting out public bus services, Dian Sheng, Qiang Meng, and Zhi-Chun Li
Submissions from 2020
Hybrid markets in public transport – contract design, performance and conflicts, Gunnar Alexandersson, Staffan Hultén, and Juan J. Jardón
Misguided quality incentives: The case of the Santiago bus system, Marco Batarce and Franco Ávila
Flexibility in contract design - is that possible?, Carolina Camén, Panagiota Tsaxiri, Malin Aldenius, and Helene Lidestam
A theory of deregulation in public transport, Andrei Dementiev and Hyen Jin Han
Transport industry adapting to change: An Australian case study, Christopher Lowe, Janet Stanley, and John Stanley
Public transport procurement in Britain, Chris Nash and Andrew Smith
Public Transport tendering and contracting arrangements in countries under regulatory transition: The case of Cyprus, Panagiotis Papaioannou, Georgios Georgiadis, Anastasia Nikolaidou, and Ioannis Politis
And the beat goes on. The continued trials and tribulations of passenger rail franchising in Great Britain, John Preston and Charles Bickel
Workshop 1 report: Models of mainstream public transport provision, John Preston and Jackie Walters
Penalties as incentives for punctuality and regularity in tendered Swedish public transport, Roger Pyddoke
How do different payment schemes to operators affect public transport concessions? A microeconomic model, Juan Pablo Sepúlveda and Patricia Galilea
Public bus service contracting: A critical review and future research opportunities, Dian Sheng and Qiang Meng
Workshop 2 report: Practical considerations in implementing different institutional regimes, Didier van de Velde and Gunnar Alexandersson
The Distance Factor in Swedish Bus Contracts How far are operators willing to go?, Andreas Vigren
The impact on bus ridership of passenger incentive contracts in public transport, Andreas Vigren and Roger Pyddoke
Understanding bidder behaviour: The case of the Mamelodi contract, Jackie Walters
Mobility as a service (MaaS): Charting a future context, Yale Z. Wong, David A. Hensher, and Corinne Mulley
Metro disruption management: Contracting substitute bus service under uncertain system recovery time, Shuyang Zhang and Hong K. Lo
Submissions from 2019
The Need for Greater Transparency When Assessing the Performance and Prospects of Melbourne’s Rail Franchise Contracts, David Patrick Ashmore, John Stone, and Yvonne Kirk
Selecting an optimal contractual payment model for Istanbul's public bus operators using non-linear mathematical programming, Fatih Canıtez, Dilay Çelebi, Muhammet Deveci, and Yusuf Kuvvetli
Cost, quality and scope of service: The case of the Israeli public bus sector, Yoram Ida, Joseph Berechman, and Sigal Levy
How to liberalise rail passenger services? Lessons from european experience, Chris Nash, Andrew Smith, Yves Crozet, Heike Link, and Jan-Eric Nilsson
US Commuter Rail Renaissance: A 30-Year Progress Report, David O. Nelson and Katherine K. O'Neil
Public transit cost efficiency studies: The impact of non-contracting regulations, K. Obeng
Adapting Procurement Models for Electric Buses in Latin America, Jone Orbea, Sebastian Castellanos, Cristina Albuquerque, Ryan Sclar, and Berta Pinheiro
Submissions from 2018
20 years of competitive tendering in the Norwegian bus industry – An analysis of bidders and winning bids, Jørgen Aarhaug, Nils Fearnley, Fredrik A. Gregersen, and Robert Bjørnøy Norseng
Contracting Fixed-Route Bus Transit Service, Daniel Boyle
Transaction cost economics of procurement models in public transport: An institutional perspective, Fatih Canıtez and Dilay Çelebi
Contracting out public transport services to vertical partnerships, Andrei Dementiev
Partnerships between operators and public transport authorities. Working practices in relational contracting and collaborative partnerships, Robert Hrelja, Tom Rye, and Caroline Mullen
Commercial services in German local public transport, Astrid Karl
Emerging trends and innovations for electric bus adoption—a comparative case study of contracting and financing of 22 cities in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Xiangyi Li, Sebastian Castellanos, and Anne Maassen
A broader perspective on social outcomes in transport, Chris Lowe, John Stanley, and Janet Stanley
Trade-offs between transaction cost, operation cost and innovation in the context of procurement and asset specificity – The example of the bus industry, R. Merkert, C. Mulley, and M. M. Hakim
Changing roles and new perspectives: towards market orientation in public transport, Sofia Molander
Worse than Baumol's disease: The implications of labor productivity, contracting out, and unionization on transit operation costs, Javier Morales Sarriera, Frederick P. Salvucci, and Jinhua Zhao
Contracting Commuter Rail Services, Volume 1: Guidebook, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Contracting Commuter Rail Services, Volume 2: Commuter Rail System Profiles, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Collaboration in public transport planning – Why, how and what?, Alexander Paulsson, Karolina Isaksson, Claus Hedegaard Sørensen, Robert Hrelja, Tom Rye, and Christina Scholten
Outcomes from new contracts with “strong” incentives for increasing ridership in bus transport in Stockholm, Roger Pyddoke and Hanna Lindgren
Local public transport in Russia: Regulation, ownership and competition, Alexander Ryzhkov
A typology of inter-organisational coordination in public transport: The case of timetable planning in Denmark, Claus Hedegaard Sørensen
Characteristics of Bus Transit Vehicles in the United States: A 30-Year National Trend Analysis, Li Tang, Albert Gan, Fabian Cevallos, and Priyanka Alluri
How many want to drive the bus? Analyzing the number of bids for public transport bus contracts, Andreas Vigren
Submissions from 2017
Future bus transport contracts under a mobility as a service (MaaS) regime in the digital age: Are they likely to change?, David A. Hensher
Maintaining competition in recurrent procurement contracts: A case study on the London bus market, Elisabetta Iossa and Michael Waterson
Off the rails: The cost performance of infrastructure rail projects, Peter E.D. Love, Jingyang Zhou, David J. Edwards, Zahir Irani, and Chun-Pong Sing
Public Transportation Guidebook for Small- and Medium-Sized Public-Private Partnerships, Nathan M. Macek, Elizabeth G. Neely, and Ella C. Claney
Planning Approaches in Contracted Fixed-Route Bus Transit Service in the United States: Private Sector’s Role in the Planning Process and Its Influence on Performance Outcomes, Joel Mendez and Jeffrey R. Brown
Optimal bus transit route packaging in a privatized contracting regime, Ashish Nayan and David Z.W. Wang
Cost models for local road transit, Umberto Petruccelli and Salvatore Carleo
Urban bus contractual regimes in small- and medium-sized municipalities: Competitive tendering or negotiation?, Jordi Rosell
Lessons from building paratransit operators’ capacity to be partners in Cape Town’s public transport reform process, Herrie Schalekamp
Using GIS to assess the potential for centralised planning of bus networks, Yuji Shi, Simon Blainey, and Nick Hounsell
Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Practices: 2017, Jon Williams
Submissions from 2016
Dominating factors contributing to the high(er) costs for public bus transports in Sweden, Carolina Camén and Helene Lidestam
Deregulation, Franchising, Outsourcing, and Corporatisation in Local Public Transport: International experience, Graham Currie
Exploring performance outcomes and regulatory contexts of Light Rail in Australia and the US, Graham Currie and Chris De Gruyter
Analyzing the gap between the QOS demanded by PT users and QOS supplied by service operators, Bryan Epstein and Moshe Givoni
Efficient contracting and incentive agreements between regulators and bus operators: The influence of risk preferences of contracting agents on contract choice, David A. Hensher, Chinh Ho, and Louise Knowles
Disruption costs in bus contract transitions, David A. Hensher, Chinh Ho, and Corinne M. Mulley
A case for negotiated performance-based contracting rather than competitive tendering in government public transport (bus) service procurement, Peter Kavanagh
What drives the drivers? Predicting turnover intentions in the Belgian bus and coach industry, Steven Lannoo and Elsy Verhofstadt
Improving bus service reliability: The Singapore experience, Waiyan Leong, Karen Goh, Stephane Hess, and Paul Murphy
The effect of contract renewal and competitive tendering on public transport costs, subsidies and ridership, Arnoud Mouwen and Jos van Ommeren
The publicness of public transport: The changing nature of public transport in Latin American cities, Laurel Paget-Seekins and Manuel Tironi
A review of general practice in contracting public transport services and transfer to BRT systems, Marisa J.D. Pedro and Rosário Macário
Big buses in a small country: The prospects for bus services in Wales, John Preston
Deja Vu all over again? Rail franchising in Britain, John Preston
Optimal allocation of vehicles to bus routes using automatically collected data and simulation modelling, Gabriel E. Sánchez-Martínez, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, and Nigel H.M. Wilson
Contracting Commuter Rail Services, Texas A&M Transportation Institute; ESH Consult; James Stoetzel; and Shelly Brown Associates, LLC
Developments in public transport governance in the Netherlands; more recent developments, Wijnand Veeneman
Cost efficiency in Swedish public transport, Andreas Vigren
Demand and service impacts of competition for the market – Australian urban bus case studies, Ian P. Wallis
The impact of alternative governance forms of regional public rail transport on transaction costs. Case evidence from Germany and Switzerland, Philipp Wegelin and Widar von Arx
Do the organizational forms affect passenger satisfaction? Evidence from Chinese public transport service, Chunqin Zhang, Zhicai Juan, Weite Lu, and Guangnian Xiao
Submissions from 2015
Innovation strategy in new transportation systems: The case of Crossrail, Mark Dodgson, David Gann, Sam MacAulay, and Andrew Davies
Competitive tendering versus performance-based negotiation in Swiss public transport, M. Filippini, M. Koller, and G. Masiero
Regulation of public bus services: The Israeli experience, Yoram Ida and Gal Talit
Optimizing dial-a-ride services in Maryland: Benefits of computerized routing and scheduling, Nikola Marković, Rahul Nair, Paul Schonfeld, Elise Miller-Hooks, and Matthew Mohebbi
Inclusion of quality criteria in public bus service contracts in metropolitan areas, Marta Rojo, Luigi dell’Olio, Hernán Gonzalo-Orden, and Ángel Ibeas
Do contractual practices affect technical efficiency? Evidence from public transport operators in China, Chunqin Zhang, Zhicai Juan, and Guangnian Xiao
Submissions from 2014
Valley Metro Organizational Integration Advancing the Future of Transportation in the Metropolitan Area of Phoenix, Arizona, Carol L. Ketcherside and Manasvi Menon
Converging structures? Recent regulatory change in bus-based local public transport in Sweden and England, Tom Rye and Anders Wretstrand
How can customer focus be strengthened in competitive tendering?, Christoph Schaaffkamp
Transit Public-Private Partnerships: Legal Issues, Larry W. Thomas
Efficient frontier analysis of Dutch public transport tendering: A first analysis, Wijnand Veeneman, Janneke Wilschut, Thijs Urlings, Jos Blank, and Didier van de Velde
