A growing number of Local Public Transport (LPT) companies diversify their production lines by providing a large set of services. We investigate the cost structure of a sample of LPT companies operating in Italy and assess the presence and the magnitude of scope economies. We split the whole...

This article examines the potential impact of ownership on the cost of bus service provision for a sample of 65 private and 12 public companies providing local public transit (LPT) in Piedmont (Italy) from 1998 to 2002. A translog cost frontier is estimated using the model in Battese and Coelli...

The relevance of scope economies is central in the unbundling of competitive tendering introduced for the assignment of franchised monopolies in LPT services, concerning either urban or intercity local transport.<BR> We present a number of different cost specifications. The separable quadratic and...