Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a disruptive impact on
transportation. To prevent a return to more widespread personal automobile use due to …

This paper reviews the studies on public bus service contracting over the past three
decades. With a bibliometric approach, the impactful clusters of studies and research focus …

A rural bus integrating passenger and freight transport is a new effective public transit mode
to realise village interconnection and solve the first–last mile rural logistics service. Mixed …

Numerous studies have attempted to identify how transport investments affect the overall
economy. The results of these studies vary considerably. This variation has been explained …

Designing appropriate quality incentives in contracting out public bus services is essential to
ensure that cost savings are not pursued at the expense of deteriorating quality. This study …

Theoretical work on auctions has shown conceptual benefits of awarding contracts to the
bidder offering the best combination of price and quality, rather than the lowest bidder …

Providing the right incentives to bus drivers has become an issue in many cities worldwide.
Liberalization experiences and research have shown that high-powered incentives lead to …

The aim of this study was to use machine learning model for prediction of running costs of
public transport buses in Karachi, which is the most widely used mode of shared mobility in …

Concession contracts of operating companies of the public transport system of Santiago,
consider important fines if companies fail to comply with the operating plan, regularity and …

This paper studies penalty design for cancellations and delays for bus contracts in two
Swedish regions, Stockholm and Skåne. In these regions regional public transport …