[sustran] Re: urban rail and transport problems in KL

Alan P Howes alanhowes at usaksa.com
Sun Sep 26 04:07:40 JST 1999


What I should have added, is that AFAIK PT in Curitiba runs without
susbsidy. If anyone has chapter and verse handy on their finance and
regulatory setup, perhaps they would like to post it. If not, and
people are interested, I will dig out what I can find.

On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:10:31 GMT, I wrote:

>Which brings me back to my usual hobby-horse,
>Curitiba (Brazil).
>
>As well as having a splendid "Bus Metro", they have a rather
>interesting regulatory system. There are several operators, operating
>on routes and at fares set down by the TA (if I remember correctly -
>I'm quoting from memory). I am not sure if they are limited in the
>bus-kms they run - though I guess they are. The clever bit is that the
>TA collects all the revenue, and allocates it to operators on the
>basis of bus-kms run. So the operators have an interest in maximising
>revenue on the system as a whole, but not in competing with other
>operators for revenue.
>
>Neat, don't you think? I would have thought the Curitiba model might
>be of interest in KL.

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