Port economics
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In: Routledge maritime masters 2
In: Blackwell companions to contemporary economics
In: Journal of labor research, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 515-524
ISSN: 1936-4768
In: Handbook of Transport and the Environment; Handbooks in Transport, p. 279-291
In: The American economist: journal of the International Honor Society in Economics, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Volume 16, Issue 2, p. 76-77
ISSN: 2328-1235
In: Journal of labor research, Volume 24, Issue 1, p. 131-142
ISSN: 1936-4768
In: Journal of labor research, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 513-533
ISSN: 1936-4768
In: American economic review, Volume 91, Issue 2, p. 164-168
ISSN: 1944-7981
In: Journal of labor research, Volume 16, Issue 2, p. 150-169
ISSN: 1936-4768
In: International journal of forecasting, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 29-36
ISSN: 0169-2070
In: Environmental and resource economics, Volume 30, Issue 1, p. 93-114
ISSN: 1573-1502
In: Administration & society, Volume 33, Issue 1, p. 79-103
ISSN: 1552-3039
This article uses survey data to determine motivations and impediments to collaboration (i.e., contracting, merger/consolidation, and strategic alliance) among public transit systems in the United States. The results suggest that transit systems are more likely to contract out passenger service if they are involved in the initiation of the collaboration effort and if they are motivated by the possibility of increased resources and by government pressure. The impediments to contracting include resistance from other agencies and government funding agency restrictions. Mergers are motivated by cost savings and government initiatives (or pressure). Strategic alliances are motivated by the promise of increased service effectiveness but not so much by service quality, cost savings, or increased resources. An impediment to the formation of strategic alliances is size of required capital investment (cost of vehicles, equipment, and facilities). The article also examines the policy implications of these results.
In: Administration & society, Volume 33, Issue 1, p. 79
ISSN: 0095-3997