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Contracts of Transport Services Provision as a Factor of Increasing the Effectiveness of the Urban Public Transport

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Advanced Solutions for Mobility in Urban Areas (TSTP 2023)

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Abstract

Public financing of urban collective transport enables the provision of urban collective transport services where the revenues from the sale of services do not cover the costs, but it is justified by social reasons and the implementation of a pricing policy that increases the availability and improves the competitiveness of collective transport in relation to travel by passenger cars. It also ensures the stability of service provision and favorable conditions for the purchase of modern low-emission rolling stock and other investments.

The paper, based on the experience in the operation of the urban collective transport in the central part of the Silesian Voivodeship, presents the direction of their evolution, so as to reduce the operators burden of the risk of events, which they cannot affect, but at the same time, only to a limited extent, to introduce risks and thereby an element of remuneration due to the services provision, depending on the transport volume. It is expected, that, together with relevant procedures for operators to submit conclusions and suggestions of changes in the transport offer, it will result in the increased productivity and rationality of the services provision by the urban public transport in cities.

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Dydkowski, G., Gałecka, W., Urbanek, A. (2024). Contracts of Transport Services Provision as a Factor of Increasing the Effectiveness of the Urban Public Transport. In: Sierpiński, G., Al-Majeed, S., Macioszek, E. (eds) Advanced Solutions for Mobility in Urban Areas. TSTP 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 907. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53181-1_2

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