Wheels within Cities: New Alternatives for Passenger Transport

This publication challenges the conventional wisdom that public transport in cities cannot be provided at a profit; that it has to be supplied by publicly owned or franchised monopolies; and that services have to be slow and costly. A number of transport systems abroad are described (largely but not exclusively in developing countries) that operate at profit. Indications are given as to what could be done to enable the United Kingdom to develop networks of fast, reliable urban public transport services that are responsive to user's needs, and provided at prices that most can afford. (TRRL)