Abstract
Private provision of transit services comes in one of three forms. The purest provision—privately financed, operated, and maintained services—is limited to locations in which operating transit services can turn a profit. Thus far that has been limited to cities with a population density of 10,000 people or more per square mile. These include dense Asian cities such as Hong Kong and Tokyo, as well as other densely populated cities such as Mexico City and Cairo. As these are the only places in the world where transit systems can be operated profitably, there are a limited number of truly private services.
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Ibid.
- 2.
Ibid.
- 3.
http://faculty.fiu.edu/~revellk/pad3800/Cullinane.pdf, 12 June 2018.
- 4.
- 5.
Ibid.
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Ibid.
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“A Bid for Better Transit,” Transit Center and Eno Center for Transportation.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
Abbreviations
- AP:
-
Availability Payment
- BRT:
-
Bus Rapid Transit
- CDOT:
-
Colorado Department of Transportation
- CRMF:
-
Commuter Railroad Maintenance Facility
- DBFOM:
-
Design, Build, Finance, Operate, Maintain
- DC:
-
District of Columbia
- JR:
-
Japanese Railways
- LTA:
-
Land Transport Association (Singapore)
- MDOT:
-
Maryland Department of Transportation
- MTA:
-
Maryland Transit Administration
- MTR:
-
Mass Transit Railroad Corporation (Hong Kong)
- NCPPP:
-
National Center for Public–Private Partnerships
- P3:
-
Public–Private Partnership
- PAB:
-
Private Activity Bond
- RTD:
-
Regional Transit District
- TfL:
-
Transport for London
- TIFIA:
-
Transportation Infrastructure Finance Innovation Act
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Feigenbaum, B. (2019). Summary of Transit Public–Private Partnerships. In: Clark, R.M., Hakim, S. (eds) Public Private Partnerships. Competitive Government: Public Private Partnerships. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24600-6_3
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