The report examines the role of the private sector in public transportation in New York City. It offers policy guidelines for utilizing market forces and the private sector to achieve greater mobility, better transportation, improved air quality, reduced congestion, and lower costs. The City's transportation system is a critical constraint on the region's economic performance. But, instead of higher fares, taxes, and tolls as a first resort, better use of the ample, existing transportation resources, public and private, is much to be preferred, because greater public expenditures for the public agency have resulted essentially in higher costs for the same output. The major transportation advances in NYC originated in the private sector: the omnibus, horsecar, elevated, trolley, subway, and bus. The private sector today continues the innovative tradition, introducing a variety of popular, responsive, route and for-hire services -- some of questionable formal legality -- with lower fares than the public agency.


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    Title :

    Private Sector in Public Transportation in New York City: A Policy Perspective


    Contributors:
    E. S. Savas (author) / S. Grava (author) / R. Sparrow (author)

    Publication date :

    1991


    Size :

    234 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English