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There are many different models but there’s one clear message: bus franchising works

Pedro Abrantes
17 June 2011
Pedro Abrantes is an economist with the Passenger Transport Executive Group (pteg) support unit.
Pedro Abrantes is an economist with the Passenger Transport Executive Group (pteg) support unit.

 

International evidence has demonstrated franchising to be a very powerful tool in delivering not only operating cost savings but also long-term patronage growth in the bus market.

While bus deregulation in Britain has been relatively successful at achieving the first of these objectives it has largely scuppered the second. According to the Competition Commission’s recent report on the local bus market, one reason for this is a lack of competitive stimuli, limiting innovation and allowing...

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