 Remunicipalising Urban Public Transport. Is France particular?La remunicipalisation des transports publics urbains en France. Combien et pourquoi ?Christian Desmaris () and
Didier van de Velde
Working Papers from HAL Abstract: For decades, public transport services in most French towns and cities have been provided on a delegated management basis, by subcontracting to private parties, using calls for tender as a selection mechanism. Recently, however, a number of cities, some of them large, have opted for direct management, moving away from the private, competitive model in favour of public management. Our study answers two questions: What is the scale of this shift? And how can it be interpreted: what are the triggers and motivations behind it? The literature on these questions is sparse, partial and dated. The database we have set up attests that remunicipalisation is no longer an anecdotal fact in France. Our interviews reveal that the motivations of local elected officials are always composite and that political factors are preponderant over transactional or economic factors. Keywords: Urban public transport; Local public services; Remunicipalisation; Reverse privatisation; Political rationality; Private/public boundary; France; Local government; Transports publics urbains; Services publics locaux; Rationalité politique; Frontière privé/public; Production interne; Gouvernement local; Working Papers du LAET (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-04221839 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from HAL |
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