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– the service which to a considerable degree is organized by carriers competing
on the market (preparing timetables and tariffs for their services);
– the regulatory scope for transport operations defined by public authorities
that is limited to the necessary minimum;
– operation of an entity fulfilling regulatory tasks of organizing, to a limited
extent, the transport service; (determining social entitlements to reduced
fares and refunding them, ordering the services from carriers that would
not be provided by them otherwise, sale of system tickets);
– the dependence of the financial situation of carriers on the number of passengers
carried;
– strict quantitative and qualitative controls of the services covered by regulation
by the public transport provider.
The regulatory scope for transport operations in the presented model depends
on the transport service quality level resulting from independent operations
of the carriers competing on a given market. If the quality is low a greater
regulatory scope is required to provide the inhabitants with a higher quality of
services. When extending the regulatory scope it should be remembered that
too great a scope of regulations in that model may entail ineffective operations
of carriers and allocating too many funds for organizational and management
activities of public authorities.
The entity organising the public transport service in a given area on behalf
of the public authorities operates at the level of a transport authority appointed
for the whole metropolitan area and composed of politicians. That entity is the
executive body of the authority. The scope of its operations results from the objectives
and tasks defined by the urban transport authority.
An important feature is the unlimited access of carriers to execution of transport
tasks. Owing to this, the supply of services is growing. The offer of each of
the carriers may, to the necessary degree, be integrated by the urban transport
authority executive body.
The fact that the service is organized to a considerable degree by carriers
opens up their initiative to compete for passengers. It may have a positive effect
on the quality of the provided services.
An important issue from the point of view of the quality of services are system
tickets which are issued by the urban transport executive and which make it
possible for passengers to travel within the coordinated area by any means of
transport, whatever the operator, including the railway service. It is also the
quantitative and qualitative controls of the provided services that has a positive
effect on their quality.
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