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....

Suggests that, with the severe and continuing resource problems besetting the Indian economy, and with the pressure on policy makers to increase economic growth, there is a need to privatize State Transport Undertakings (STUs). Points out that the debate as to whether STUs should undergo...