The purpose of this study is to assess differences in the levels of cost efficiency of bus lines operated under competitively tendered contracts and performance-based negotiated contracts. Following the revision of the Swiss railways act in 1996, regional public authorities were given the choice between two different contractual regimes to procure public passenger transport services. We directly compare the impact of competitive tendering and performance-based negotiation by applying a stochastic frontier analysis to the complete dataset of bus lines (n=630) operated by the main Swiss company (Swiss Post) at the same time (in 2009) throughout the country. The overall results show that the differences in the levels of cost efficiency...
In this paper, we empirically investigate operator changes and the structural conditions in competit...
Author's accepted version (postprint).This article evaluates the structural changes that have taken ...
The results of this work show that the cost efficiency of tendered bus services is similar across al...
The purpose of this study is to assess differences in the levels of cost efficiency of bus lines ope...
The purpose of this study is to assess differences in the levels of cost efficiency of bus lines ope...
In public transport governance, competitive tendering has often demonstrated good results in ensurin...
The 90s saw a noticeable growth in the use of competitive tendering as a way of selecting bus operat...
Our paper investigates the developments in the Norwegian bus industry following the ramp-up of compe...
Our paper investigates the developments in the Norwegian bus industry following the ramp-up of compe...
EU Regulation 1370/2007 promotes competitive tendering as the main mechanism for awarding the provis...
In this paper, we aim to estimate the effect of contract renewal as well as competitive tendering on...
This article addresses transaction costs of different governance forms in regional public rail trans...
Bus and other road-bound services like tram and light railway are the backbone of the German local p...
After a long transition period with only a few isolated procedures for competitive tendering, the m...
Nearly all regional public bus services in Sweden have been competitively tendered for 30 years. The...
In this paper, we empirically investigate operator changes and the structural conditions in competit...
Author's accepted version (postprint).This article evaluates the structural changes that have taken ...
The results of this work show that the cost efficiency of tendered bus services is similar across al...
The purpose of this study is to assess differences in the levels of cost efficiency of bus lines ope...
The purpose of this study is to assess differences in the levels of cost efficiency of bus lines ope...
In public transport governance, competitive tendering has often demonstrated good results in ensurin...
The 90s saw a noticeable growth in the use of competitive tendering as a way of selecting bus operat...
Our paper investigates the developments in the Norwegian bus industry following the ramp-up of compe...
Our paper investigates the developments in the Norwegian bus industry following the ramp-up of compe...
EU Regulation 1370/2007 promotes competitive tendering as the main mechanism for awarding the provis...
In this paper, we aim to estimate the effect of contract renewal as well as competitive tendering on...
This article addresses transaction costs of different governance forms in regional public rail trans...
Bus and other road-bound services like tram and light railway are the backbone of the German local p...
After a long transition period with only a few isolated procedures for competitive tendering, the m...
Nearly all regional public bus services in Sweden have been competitively tendered for 30 years. The...
In this paper, we empirically investigate operator changes and the structural conditions in competit...
Author's accepted version (postprint).This article evaluates the structural changes that have taken ...
The results of this work show that the cost efficiency of tendered bus services is similar across al...