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7 Introduction This chapter summarizes findings from a literature review related to contracting fixed-route bus transit service. Panel members suggested several information sources.
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8 Contracting Fixed-route Bus transit Service The Contracting Experience General managers of most transit systems are generally satisfied with their current approach to service delivery. Most have experience with more than one method of delivery.
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Literature review 9 and various measures of increasing cost efficiency and maintain a cooperative relationship with its unions to determine an appropriate level of contracting for its own operating environment. Types of Contracting Iseki et al.
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10 Contracting Fixed-route Bus transit Service overtime. The contracting agency usually supplies the facility and vehicles, but everything (and everyone)
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Literature review 11 Open Market Procurements," is relevant for fixed-route bus service contracting. This chapter addresses the requirement for competition, solicitation requirements and restrictions, methods of procurement, eligible costs, incentive costs and payments, cost analysis and price analysis, evaluations, and contract award.
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12 Contracting Fixed-route Bus transit Service costs. The report examines the drivers of operating costs, approaches to containing costs, transit agency priorities for tools needed to better contain costs, and methodology used to develop the guidebook and workshop.
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Literature review 13 1989 and 1993. The findings show that bus services operated under contract are sometimes, but not always, less costly than directly operated services.
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14 Contracting Fixed-route Bus transit Service and type of operations (directly operated by the agency versus contracted out)
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Literature review 15 bus routes. The main contribution made by this research is the incorporation of the subjective value of time and willingness to pay in exchange for improvements in service quality.
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16 Contracting Fixed-route Bus transit Service Based on a South African case study, Mokomyama and Venter (2013) use data collected from a group of passengers who have personal cars but choose to use public transport and a control group of passengers who only use their cars, in the same corridor as the user group, to estimate a service quality conjoint model.
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Literature review 17 such as charter activity, can play in improving the cost efficiency of contracted services. This study investigates this phenomenon in the context of Sydney (Australia)
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18 Contracting Fixed-route Bus transit Service several lessons for other jurisdictions considering reforms in urban public transport. In particular, the evidence suggests that cost savings and service improvements are achievable through corporatization of public agencies and the introduction of service tendering, although savings tend to be one-offs and are subject to excessive optimism.
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Literature review 19 deregulation. The coefficient of subsidies to companies is positive, with statistical significance, thereby suggesting that cost efficiency decreases as the subsidy ratio increases.
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