Meeting the Public Administration Goals: Trade-Offs or Synergies—The Case of Public Transit

In: Public works management & policy: a journal for the American Public Works Association, Volume 19, Issue 4, p. 340-344

Abstract

Public policy has multiple trade-offs between equity and efficiency, or liberty and security. This article discusses the emerging empirical evidence that in the case of effectiveness and efficiency, there is certain complementarity. The empirical evidence shows that multiple goals can be achieved simultaneously. In the public transit, there is also certain order to how the goals could be achieved, which requires prioritization of the goals.