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Submissions from 2023

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Planning for Bus Rapid Transit in an island context. The challenges of implementing BRT in Malta, Maria Attard

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Re-evaluating roles and relationships between city authorities and informal public transport operators in sub-saharan africa: A comparative analysis of five cities, Timothy Durant, Mamaa Grant Monney, Michael Etonam Johnson, Kwame Kwakwa Osei, Joaquín Romero de Tejada, Herrie Schalekamp, and Ansumana Tarawally

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Innovation in stable competitive tendering regimes: An insoluble knot?, Lisa Hansson, Malin Aldenius, Alexander Paulsson, Karin Thoresson, and Birgitta Vitestam

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All things must pass? Recent changes to competition and ownership in public transport in Great Britain., John Preston

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Will the latest British reforms to rail passenger service procurement work?, Andrew S.J. Smith and Chris A. Nash

Submissions from 2022

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European railway deregulation: an overview of market organization and capacity allocation, Abderrahman Ait Ali and Jonas Eliasson

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Optimal pricing for ferry services with a new entrant: a game-theoretic perspective, Huibing Cheng, Su Xiu Xu, George Q. Huang, Saijun Shao, and Gangyan Xu

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Is it time for a new bus contract procurement model under a zero emissions bus setting?, David A. Hensher

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Effects of open access competition on prices and frequencies on the interurban railway market: Evidence from Europe, Florent Laroche and Ayana Lamatkhanova

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Efficient and stable data-sharing in a public transit oligopoly as a coopetitive game, Qi Liu and Joseph Y.J. Chow

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Conditions for effective on-track competition in the European passenger railway market: A yardstick for regulations, Bojan Ristić, Nikola Stojadinović, and Dejan Trifunović

Submissions from 2021

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The case for negotiated contracts under the transition to a green bus fleet, David A. Hensher

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Competition between shared autonomous vehicles and public transit: A case study in Singapore, Baichuan Mo, Zhejing Cao, Hongmou Zhang, Yu Shen, and Jinhua Zhao

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The impact of competitive tendering on operational costs and market concentration in public transport: The Norwegian car ferry services, James Odeck and Harald Høyem

Submissions from 2020

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Hybrid markets in public transport – contract design, performance and conflicts, Gunnar Alexandersson, Staffan Hultén, and Juan J. Jardón

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Why do paratransit operators resist participation in bus rapid transit? Case evidence from Bogota, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Lagos, Emmanuel Theodore Asimeng and Dirk Heinrichs

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The impact of delays on the welfare effects of on-track competition: The case of transfer passengers with operator-tied tickets, Christina Brand and Gernot Sieg

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Flexibility in contract design - is that possible?, Carolina Camén, Panagiota Tsaxiri, Malin Aldenius, and Helene Lidestam

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A theory of deregulation in public transport, Andrei Dementiev and Hyen Jin Han

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Reforming Public Transport Planning and Delivery, International Transport Forum

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Public transport procurement in Britain, Chris Nash and Andrew Smith

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Public Transport tendering and contracting arrangements in countries under regulatory transition: The case of Cyprus, Panagiotis Papaioannou, Georgios Georgiadis, Anastasia Nikolaidou, and Ioannis Politis

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Workshop 1 report: Models of mainstream public transport provision, John Preston and Jackie Walters

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Public bus service contracting: A critical review and future research opportunities, Dian Sheng and Qiang Meng

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Workshop 2 report: Practical considerations in implementing different institutional regimes, Didier van de Velde and Gunnar Alexandersson

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The Distance Factor in Swedish Bus Contracts How far are operators willing to go?, Andreas Vigren

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Value for money in procurement of urban bus services – Competitive tendering versus negotiated contracts: Recent New Zealand experience, Ian Wallis

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Understanding bidder behaviour: The case of the Mamelodi contract, Jackie Walters

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The coming disruption – The rise of mobility as a service and the implications for government, Anna Wilson and Ben Mason

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Integrated transport management: Lessons from a Chinese city, Wei Yang, Wijnand Veeneman, Martin de Jong, and Yun Song

Submissions from 2019

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Cost, quality and scope of service: The case of the Israeli public bus sector, Yoram Ida, Joseph Berechman, and Sigal Levy

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“Three Ps in a MOD:” Role for mobility on demand (MOD) public-private partnerships in public transit provision, Emma Lucken, Karen Trapenberg Frick, and Susan A. Shaheen

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How to liberalise rail passenger services? Lessons from european experience, Chris Nash, Andrew Smith, Yves Crozet, Heike Link, and Jan-Eric Nilsson

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US Commuter Rail Renaissance: A 30-Year Progress Report, David O. Nelson and Katherine K. O'Neil

Submissions from 2018

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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

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Transaction cost economics of procurement models in public transport: An institutional perspective, Fatih Canıtez and Dilay Çelebi

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The role of bus partnerships in Great Britain, John Godfrey and John Taylor

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Commercial services in German local public transport, Astrid Karl

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Evaluation of cost drivers within public bus transports in Sweden, Helene Lidestam, Carolina Camén, and Björn Lidestam

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Institutional preparedness to bus tendering in the context of a fragmented liberalized market: Case study of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tatenda Mbara and Smart Dumba

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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

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Changing roles and new perspectives: towards market orientation in public transport, Sofia Molander

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Local public transport in Russia: Regulation, ownership and competition, Alexander Ryzhkov

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Do direct awards lead to better public transport?, Christoph Schaaffkamp

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How many want to drive the bus? Analyzing the number of bids for public transport bus contracts, Andreas Vigren

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Is the mere threat enough? An empirical analysis about competitive tendering as a threat and cost efficiency in public bus transportation, Philipp Wegelin

Submissions from 2017

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Assessing standard costs in local public bus transport: A hybrid cost model, Alessandro Avenali, Andrea Boitani, Giuseppe Catalano, Tiziana D’Alfonso, and Giorgio Matteucci

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Evaluating the roles and powers of rail regulatory bodies in Europe: A survey-based approach, Valerio Benedetto, Andrew S.J. Smith, and Chris A. Nash

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Patterns of entry and exit in the deregulated German interurban bus industry, Niklas S. Dürr and Kai Hüschelrath

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Maintaining competition in recurrent procurement contracts: A case study on the London bus market, Elisabetta Iossa and Michael Waterson

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Are users better-off with new transit lines?, Moez Kilani, André de Palma, and Stef Proost

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Non-discriminatory train dispatching in a rail transport market with multiple competing and collaborative train operating companies, Xiaojie Luan, Francesco Corman, and Lingyun Meng

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Optimal bus transit route packaging in a privatized contracting regime, Ashish Nayan and David Z.W. Wang

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Cost models for local road transit, Umberto Petruccelli and Salvatore Carleo

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Urban bus contractual regimes in small- and medium-sized municipalities: Competitive tendering or negotiation?, Jordi Rosell

Submissions from 2016

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To contract or to operate publicly? Observations from the bus service reform transition process in Malta, Thérèse Bajada and Helena Titheridge

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Dominating factors contributing to the high(er) costs for public bus transports in Sweden, Carolina Camén and Helene Lidestam

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Deregulation, Franchising, Outsourcing, and Corporatisation in Local Public Transport: International experience, Graham Currie

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Exploring performance outcomes and regulatory contexts of Light Rail in Australia and the US, Graham Currie and Chris De Gruyter

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A theoretical analysis of business models for urban public transport systems, with comparative reference to a Community Franchise involving Individual Line Ownership, David Emerson, Corinne Mulley, and Michiel C.J. Bliemer

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Disruption costs in bus contract transitions, David A. Hensher, Chinh Ho, and Corinne M. Mulley

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A case for negotiated performance-based contracting rather than competitive tendering in government public transport (bus) service procurement, Peter Kavanagh

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Legislating Transit “Coopetition” Privatization and Planning Devolution in Germany, Martha Koch and Gregory L. Newmark

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Competitive tendering and cross-shareholding in public passenger transport, Terje Andreas Mathisen

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The effect of contract renewal and competitive tendering on public transport costs, subsidies and ridership, Arnoud Mouwen and Jos van Ommeren

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Big buses in a small country: The prospects for bus services in Wales, John Preston

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Developments in public transport governance in the Netherlands; more recent developments, Wijnand Veeneman

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Cost efficiency in Swedish public transport, Andreas Vigren

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Demand and service impacts of competition for the market – Australian urban bus case studies, Ian P. Wallis

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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

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Urban rail investment and transit-oriented development in Beijing: Can it reach a higher potential?, Jiawen Yang, Jige Quan, Bin Yan, and Canfei He

Submissions from 2015

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The looming crisis in French public transit, Dominique Bouf and Bruno Faivre d’Arcier

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The impact of market opening on the supply of interregional train services, Oskar Fröidh and Bo-Lennart Nelldal

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Regulation of public bus services: The Israeli experience, Yoram Ida and Gal Talit

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Data driven improvements in public transport: the Dutch example, Niels van Oort, Daniel Sparing, Ties Brands, and Rob M. P. Goverde

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A European Model for Public Transport Authorities in Small and Medium Urban Areas, Steve Wright

Submissions from 2014

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“If You're Just a Bus Community … You're Second Tier”: Motivations for Rapid Mass Transit (RMT) Development in Two Mid-sized Cities, Andrew McLellan and Damian Collins

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How can customer focus be strengthened in competitive tendering?, Christoph Schaaffkamp

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Developments in public transport governance in the Netherlands: A brief history and recent developments, Wijnand Veeneman and Didier van de Velde

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The contracting of urban bus services – recent Australian developments, Ian P. Wallis and David J. Bray

Submissions from 2013

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User satisfaction and the organization of local public transport: Evidence from European cities, Carlo V. Fiorio, Massimo Florio, and Giovanni Perucca

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Does competitive tendering improve customer satisfaction with public transport? A case study for the Netherlands, Arnoud Mouwen and Piet Rietveld

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Customer choice patterns in passenger rail competition, Johannes Paha, Dirk Rompf, and Christiane Warnecke

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Competition in multi-modal transport networks: A dynamic approach, Adriaan Hendrik van der Weijde, Erik T. Verhoef, and Vincent A.C. van den Berg

Submissions from 2012

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Reforming the urban public transport bus system in Malta: Approach and acceptance, Maria Attard

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Competition for Public Transport Services, Arne Beck

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Private sector involvement in urban rail: Experience and lessons from South East Asia, David Bray and Philip Sayeg

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Analyzing the structure of informal transit: The evening commute problem, Celeste Chavis and Carlos F. Daganzo

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Four decades of changing transport policy in Santiago, Chile, Oscar Figueroa

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Towards a simplified performance-linked value for money model as a reference point for bus contract payments, David A. Hensher, Corinne Mulley, and Neil Smith

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Evaluating the long term impacts of transport policy: An initial assessment of bus deregulation, John Preston and Talal Almutairi

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Workshop 3A report – Governance, contracting, ownership and competition issues in public transport: Looking up not down, John Stanley and Andrew Smith

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‘Regulated deregulation’ of local bus services—An appraisal of international developments, Didier van de Velde and Ian Wallis

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How much can public private partnership really do for urban transport in developing countries?, Christopher Willoughby

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Joint Development as a Value Capture Strategy in Transportation Finance, Zhirong Jerry Zhao, Kirty Vardhan Das, and Kerstin Larson

Submissions from 2011

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Experiences with Competitive Tendering of Bus Services in Germany, Arne Beck

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Relationships between fares, trip length and market competition, Derek J. Clark, Finn Jørgensen, and Terje Andreas Mathisen

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Modelling open access train services, Martin Prior, James Vickers, and John Segal

Submissions from 2010

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Organizational Regimes for Commuter Rail, John G. Allen and Alex Lu

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The 2008 New Zealand public transport management act: Rationale, key provisions, and parallels with the United Kingdom, David P. Ashmore and Andrew D. Mellor