This paper analyses whether the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project in the city of Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat in India is worth the investments (more than ten thousand million Indian rupees) it swallowed. The viability of transportation project being a public good has to be assessed...

India's urban transport sector has realized the significance of engagement of private players in operating city bus services. Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) confront perennial problems such as productive inefficiencies, capacity shortages, financial constrains and so on and hence the private...