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Title:

UNIFICATION: PAINLESS CONSOLIDATION OF SPECIAL SERVICES

Accession Number:

00611817

Record Type:

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Abstract:

Efforts to bring together small, independent providers of specialized transportation services to increase efficiency have been made for more than 20 years. Consolidation and coordination are two methods that have been attempted. The results are mixed. Sometimes consolidation and coordination fail because of political reasons, sometimes they are implemented but fail to provide improvements. Politicians are attracted to consolidation in theory but resist it if their jobs are affected. A third method, unification, was studied recently in Central Contra Costa County, California. Specialized transportation providers were placed under a common management umbrella. Management was consolidated but service was not. Unification is attractive because it is less of a threat to stakeholders, yet it provides the management structure necessary for accomplishing the specific changes that are hoped for under consolidation and coordination. The unified system discussed here is a type of brokerage system providing flexibility for multiple providers and service competition. How the concept of unification was developed, presented, and implemented in Central Contra Costa County is discussed in this paper.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1292, Specialized Transportation 1991, Proceedings of a Conference, October 28-31, 1990, Sarasota, Florida. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

Monograph Accession #:

01411110

Authors:

Lave, Roy
Nestor, Mallory

Pagination:

p. 1-7

Publication Date:

1991

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1292
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309050731

Features:

Figures (1)

Uncontrolled Terms:

German reunification

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Aug 31 1991 12:00AM

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