Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries

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Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries

prescribe that each operator should have at least 50 buses which can be scaled up later.

They can have it either on their own or come together. This will ensure some economy for

them also. This will also ensure that they maintain a certain level of infrastructure. The

policy should have sufficient entry barriers so that everybody cannot enter the field at their

will. It should also depend upon due diligence of the operators. They should exhibit bet-

ter management practices in terms of crew training, information systems and accounting, ...