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Transportation in transition

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  • Pikarsky, Milton
  • Johnson, Christine M.

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The so-called crisis in American urban transportation is in fact the timely death of outmoded institutions for financing, managing, and delivering transportation services. Accompanying the demise of the old is the painful birth of many new systems, including buses, car pools, van pools, commuter clubs, subscription services, jitneys, and automobile leasing arrangements. The new system was spurred by previous energy emergencies and strikes and will itself serve as a basis for future contingency plans. The public transportation sector is both focusing and reducing its financial commitments and getting better control over its costs. All sectors—the public, the employer, the commuter, and the private provider—are in the process of renegotiating the social contract for the delivery of transportation services.

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  • Pikarsky, Milton & Johnson, Christine M., 1983. "Transportation in transition," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 8(8), pages 589-599.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:8:y:1983:i:8:p:589-599
    DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(83)90026-9
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