GAO Documents

GAO Documents
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 916
Release: 1981
Genre: Economics
ISBN:

Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.

Transit Costs, Performance Evaluation, and Subsidy Allocation

Transit Costs, Performance Evaluation, and Subsidy Allocation
Author: Lyn Long
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1983
Genre: Local transit
ISBN:

The 394 citations in this bibliography deal with some of the most critical problems confronting transit operators and government bodies in a period of rising operating costs and increasing problems in assuring adequate subsidies. Nearly all are from U. S. sources and the majority are from the past ten years. They include technical reports, journal articles and dissertations.

Urban Transportation Financing

Urban Transportation Financing
Author: Mark w. Frankena
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1982-12-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1487597207

This is an economic analysis of pricing and subsidy policies for urban roads and urban public transit in Ontario. Professor Frankena demonstrates the benefits of evaluating the economic merits of policy alternatives, and attempts to determine whether existing policies waste resources or lead to undesirable income transfers among different groups in the population. He concludes that resources are being wasted because the use of urban roads is substantially underpriced during periods of peak demand. He also finds that while there are sound economic justifications for substantial public transit subsidies, the allocation of subsidies by the Ontario government on the basis of capital expenditures can be expected to waste resources, as can the maximization of ridership which is likely to lead to detrimental fare and service policies. In conclusion, Frankena suggests improvements in the systems for charging people for the use of roads and public transit and in the ways that governments provide subsidies.