The call for abstracts for the Thredbo conference on Competition and
Ownership in Land Passenger Transport in Santiago, Chile (Aug 3- Sept 3,
2015) has been extended to January 23, 2015.
Please check the website for more information:
http://www.thredbo-conference-series.org/call-for-abstracts
In particular I am looking for good papers for my workshop on "Reassessing
Public Operations."
This workshop will revisit the question of whether to contract or publicly
operate urban transit services, particularly within the context of the
transition to formalized services in developing cities. This transition
generates a range of issues from operational challenges to institutional
capacity and political obstacles that impact the decision and the outcome
of the ownership of operations question. We hope to generate a body of
research that will help decision-makers to make whether to contract or
publicly operate a deliberate policy decision. We welcome papers that
discuss the complexities of formalization and how they impact the ownership
of operations question, and evaluations of existing contracted or publicly
operated services.
Thanks!
Laurel
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Laurel Paget-Seekins
Co-editor
*Restructuring Public Transport Through Bus Rapid Transit*
to be released in 2015 from Policy Press
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