of overarching authorities. -- Public transport ; bus ; tendering ; price ; region ; SUR analysis ; SFA …Competitive tendering of local bus services in Germany has received increased attention. Employing Seemingly Unrelated … the federal state of Hesse increase over time, prices in the Munich area decrease. Optimisation of bus utilisation in …

impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost inefficiency of local public bus companies in Germany, where a complex …. -- Stochastic cost frontier ; subsidies ; heteroscedasticity ; local public bus transportation ; cost efficiency ; panel data …

impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost inefficiency of local public bus companies in Germany, where a complex …

Das System der Verkehrsverbünde und der Zuweisung von Fahrgeldeinnahmen in Deutschland steht wegen seiner …

The transport economics literature has indicated that introduction of competition for the market in urban bus services … concludes that contracting-out bus services through a bidding process is not enough to ensure company cost-efficiency if public … authorities do not implement a well-devised competitive tendering process and do not design an effective regulatory framework. We …

Optimal pricing facilitates attainment of specific goals. The optimum price to achieve profit maximization may differ … of the private firms. In case of private monopoly supplier, it is almost certain that the profit maximizing price will … paper discusses the theory of public sector pricing and its application to publicly supplied bus transport services using a …