Governing Metropolitan Transport

1. Front Matter

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2. The Policy Case for Metropolitan Transport Authorities

   • Simone Busetti

   Pages 1-28

3. Institutions, Institutional Change and Policy Outcomes

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   Pages 29-51

4. The New Governance of Transport in London

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   Pages 53-84

5. The Metropolitan Transport Authority of Barcelona (ATM)

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   Pages 85-106

6. Lessons for Institutional Designers

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7. Back Matter

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This book investigates the link between institutions and public policies with specific reference to transport. It opens by examining the main arguments for the establishment of metropolitan transport authorities. The potential impacts of institutional change on the policy efficiency of institutions are then examined. Key problems for institutional designers are identified, showing how they can hamper the achievement of desired policy outcomes through institutional solutions. Two in-depth case studies on institutional change in metropolitan transport (in London and Barcelona) are presented with a view to testing the aforementioned hypotheses and providing insights into the ways in which the two transport institutions were reformed. The concluding chapter identifies lessons for institutional designers and highlights the policy results that may be expected from the constitution of metropolitan transport authorities.

• ATM
• Autoritat del Transport Metropolità
• Greater London Authority
• Greater London Council
• Institutional design
• Metropolitan governance
• Metropolitan transport in Barcelona
• Metropolitan transport in London
• Neo-institutionalism
• Public service management
• Transport management
• Transport policy
• urban geography and urbanism

• DIG - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  Simone Busetti

Simone Busetti is a research fellow at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and teaches Public Policy Analysis at Organisation Sciences at the University of Milano-Bicocca.

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