purchasing buses primarily from a few domestic bus makers. Unlike private vehicles, the fuel economy of public buses is … irresponsive to fuel price changes. To understand this finding, we build a model of bus fleet management decisions of local transit … agencies that yields testable hypotheses. Our empirical analysis of bus fleet turnover and capital investment suggests that …

dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a … bus expenses and time saved on travel. Skilled employed women increase labor supply, while low-skill married women shift …

Diesel emissions from school buses expose children to high levels of air pollution; retrofitting bus engines can …

Two systems of bus driver compensation exist in Santiago, Chile. Most drivers are paid per passenger transported, while … compensation schemes on similar routes in the same city. Using data on intervals between bus arrivals, we find that the fixed … by a group of independent information intermediaries called "sapos" who earn their living by standing at bus stops …

delivering key services. To understand the productivity both over time and across space, we examine public bus service, which … across transit agencies in the operating cost per bus mile with the highest being more than three times as high as the lowest … result in cost savings of $5.7 billion in 2011 and that the gain in economic efficiency from more closely aligning bus fares …

preferences for waiting times, travel times, and transfers. We study these tradeoffs by examining the world's largest bus rapid … and aggregate travel flows from smartphone data, we analyze how new direct connections, changes in bus travel time, and … the route launches. Commuters in Jakarta are 2-4 times more sensitive to wait time compared to time on the bus, and …