Track: Transportation and Traffic
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to carry out a literature review of the empirical studies that treat the efficiency of
management modes in the urban public transport services (UPTS). It comes to analysing the scientific papers that
sought to determine, based on frontier and econometric methods, the links between the choice of management
mode and performance within the provision of UPT services. The question that these studies are trying to answer
is: Does the delivery of UPT services by a private operator, leads to better performance than when a public or
mixed operator provides these services?