Public transit ridership tumbled amid the COVID-19 pandemic, contributing to enormous budget deficits and prompting slashed or eliminated service offerings across the United States. These service cuts may cause a vicious cycle and end up hurting the most vulnerable riders who cannot afford to...

Regulation of public transport operators is theorised to feature a cyclical tendency from publicly owned monopoly to various types of private schemes and then back to public monopoly. This paper analyses the evidence for a regulatory cycle and whether there are stable regulatory regimes in the...

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems have existed for more than 50 years, but they are still uncommon and unfamiliar. This review article synthesizes the findings of 42 papers which have discussed reasons for the slow adoption of BRT. Eleven causes were identified and the causes are usually different...

Competitive tendering of local bus services in Germany has received increased attention. Employing Seemingly Unrelated Regression analyses, we observe that prices have regionally varying determinants; for example, while prices throughout most of the federal state of Hesse increase over time,...

Public transportation provides the general public the basic mobility services to employment, community resources, medical care, and recreational opportunities in communities. People who do not have access to a private motor vehicle such as young students, the aged, the poor, and people banned...