Commercial Public Bus Transport Services In Germany: How A Market In Motion Struggles …
The paper has been awarded with the Michael Beesley Award - Honorable Mention for best WS Paper at the Thredbo 11 - International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport.
published in: Research in Transportation Economics Volume 29, Issue 1, 07/2010
The Journal Research in Transportation Economics accepted the article for its special issue “Reforming Public Transport throughout the World”.
The paper deals with the competitive market for commercial public bus transport services in Germany which is beginning to move. Nevertheless the number of cases where competition is observable remains small.
An empirical analysis confirms that entry barriers do exist compared to the tendering market. The paper identifies a key entry barrier in the institutional framework: for potential market entrants, the overall uncertainty regarding competitive procedures for commercial services is significantly higher than usual in tendering procedures.
A direct link to the journal article can be found here.