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The history of transit system management in the United States has largely been a history of failure--failure to come to grips with the real issues involved and failure to develop effective policies for an efficient and rational system.
This book, the first major survey in more than a decade, catalogues management attempts to overcome constraints imposed by external institutional and sociopolitical factors, as well as by internal labor and resource problems. In combining actual case histories with academic insights, it offers managers and consultants the tools to make transit systems work.
List of contents
Introduction: Federal Transit Assistance, Management Deregulation, and Local Mobility Needs
Elected versus Appointed Boards and Transit Management Effectiveness
Local Government Financing of Public Transportation: A Case Study of Georgia Transit Systems
Transit Financing: The Case of California
Governing and Managing Multimodal Regional Transit Agencies in a Multicentric Era
Paying for Public Transportation: The Problem of Operating Deficits at MARTA
Financial Forecasting and Annual Budgeting
Mass Transit Budgeting
The Successful Uses of Decentralized Program Budget in the New York City Transit Authority
Monitoring Transit Performance
Collective Bargaining in the New York City Transit Authority
The Determinants of the Decision to Contract Out Public Transit Services
Index
About the author
GEORGE M. GUESS is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at Georgia State University. He is the author of The Politics of United States Foreign Aid and Cases in Public Policy Analysis. Guess has also written numerous articles appearing in Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Administration Quarterly, and International Journal of Public Administration.
