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Bus fleet planning is part and parcel of orderly management of a bus transit property. Budgetary provisions need to be made for the future acquisitions of new buses; maintenance programs tailored to the upcoming retirement of old ones; subsidies requested, orders placed etc. It is not uncommon to prepare Strategic Acquisition and Retirement Programs several years into the future for internal planning or as a part of request for subsidies towards the purchase of new equipment, or for both.
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Hauer, E. (1977). Bus acquisition and retirement decisions. In: Visser, E.J. (eds) Transport decisions in an age of uncertainty. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9707-3_39
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