The Limits to Competition in Urban Bus Services in Developing Countries

The authors make the case for the return of regulation in the organization of urban bus services in developing countries. During the past three decades urban public transport policy has gone through several phases. The 1980s and 1990s were characte...

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Main Authors:	Estache, Antonio, Gómez-Lobo, Andrés
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	BUSES PUBLIC TRANSPORT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP MONOPOLIES WELFARE REGULATION TRANSPORT ACCELERATION ACCIDENTS ACCOUNTABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AIR POLLUTION AVERAGE AGE AVERAGE AGE OF BUSES BUS COMPANIES BUS FARES BUS INDUSTRY BUS LANES BUS MARKET BUS OWNERS BUS ROUTE BUS ROUTES BUS SECTOR BUS SERVICES BUS STOP BUS STOPS BUS SYSTEM BUS TRANSPORT BUS TYPES CARS COMMON PROPERTY CONCESSIONS CONGESTION CONGESTION EXTERNALITIES CURBS DEREGULATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DIESEL FUEL DRIVERS ECONOMIES OF SCOPE EFFICIENCY OF TRANSPORT EMISSION STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS EQUILIBRIUM EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS EXPLOITATION FARE LEVELS FARE REGULATION FATALITIES FIXED COSTS FUEL PRICES GENERATORS GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION HEADWAY INCOME LARGE CITIES LARGE FLEET LARGE NUMBER OF OPERATORS MAIN ROADS MARKET ECONOMIES MARKET POWER METRO SYSTEM MODAL INTEGRATION MODAL SPLIT MODE OF TRANSPORT NATURAL MONOPOLIES OIL OPERATING COSTS PASSENGER PASSENGERS PEAK HOURS POLICY MAKERS PRIVATE AUTOMOBILE PRIVATE OPERATORS PRIVATIZATION PUBLIC TRANSPORT POLICY PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICE PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM RATE OF RETURN REVENUE SHARING ROUTE DESIGN SAFETY SAFETY CONCERNS SAFETY PROBLEMS SOCIAL COSTS STATE INTERVENTION STREETS STRUCTURES TAXI TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TRAFFIC TRAFFIC CONTROL TRAFFIC MONITORING TRAFFIC SAFETY TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSPORT SECTOR TRANSPORT SYSTEM TRAVEL TIMES TRIPS URBAN BUS URBAN BUS TRANSPORT URBAN PLANNING URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT URBAN TRANSPORT URBAN TRANSPORT POLICIES URBAN TRANSPORT SECTOR VALUE OF TIME VEHICLES WAITING TIME WELFARE FUNCTION WORKING CAPITAL
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/02/3209477/limits-competition-urban-bus-services-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14787

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14787

The Limits to Competition in Urban Bus Services in Developing Countries

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