[sustran] Re: What is the "economic value" of the city transport system?

[Alan P Howes]

Sorry, I should have picked this up earlier - apologies if this is no
longer news.

There is a report on "The Role of the Bus in the [UK] Urban Economy",
compiled by Wootton Jeffreys Consultants Ltd for the Confederation of
Public Transport UK in 1994.

It is limited in that it only covers buses, it is limited to the UK,
and it includes few quantifiable figures in money terms. It is much
more qualitative than quantitative, despite including quite a lot of
modal split information for specific British towns and cities. 

It would however make a useful starting point for further research -
it has a reasonable, though again UK-only, bibliography. I believe it
is still available from CPTUK. The contact details in the report are
out of date, I believe - if CPTUK don't have a website (which they
really should have), I can no doubt track them down.

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 15:31:46 -0500, Jonathan Gifford wrote:

>Noting the subsequent discussion on this subject, U.S. state and local
>governments are required in the next few years to begin report the value of
>their fixed capital assets on their financial statements 
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Alan Howes, Special Advisor (Operations)
Saudi Public Transport Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 
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