Costs for Swedish public transport authorities in tendered bus contracts

Andreas Vigren

No 2014:22, Working papers in Transport Economics from CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI)

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to investigate how different factors affect costs for Swedish Public Transport Authorities (PTA). A theoretical framework is presented for the empirics, a cross sectional regression analysis with cost and supply data from 20 Swedish counties for the year 2012. The most important results are that a one percentage increase in output yield a lower than one percentage increase in cost. The usage of incentives scheme contract do not increase total costs. Lastly, contracts operated by publicly owned operators seem to give higher costs for the PTAs.

Keywords: Public Transport; Cost; Competitive Tendering; Public Transport Authority; Bus operators; Incentives contract; Fixed price contract; Incentives scheme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H57 R48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2014-11-06
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