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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Cutting Costs in Public Transport, 30 March- 1 April, 1982
Author: Urban Transportation Abstracts
Author: Recent Transportation Literature for Planning and Engineering Librarians
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Transportation Studies. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Public Administration Series--Bibliography
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Category : Public administration
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Transit Capital Investment to Reduce Operating Deficits
Author: Richard W. DrakePublisher: Transportation Research Board National Research
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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British Rail 1974-1997
Author: Terry GourvishPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191554693
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Britain's privatised railways continure to provoke debate about the organisation, financing, and development of the railway system. This important book, written by Britain's leading railway historian, provides an authoritative account of the progress made by British Rail prior to privatisation, and a unique insight into its difficult role in the government's privatisation planning from 1989. Based on free access to the British Railway Board's rich archives, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the main themes: a process of continuous organisational change; the existence of a persistent government audit; perennial investment restraints; the directive to reduce operating costs and improve productivity; a concern with financial performance, technological change, service quality, and the management of industrial relations; and the Board's ambiguous position as the Conservative government pressed home its privatisation programme. The introduction of sector management from 1982 and the 'Organising for Quality' initiative of the early 1990s, the Serpell Report on railway finances of 1983, the sale of the subsidiary businesses, the large-scale investment in the Channel Tunnel, and the obsession with safety which followed the Clapham accident of 1988, are all examined in depth. In the conclusion, the author reviews the successes and failures of the public sector, rehearses the arguments for and against integration in the railway industry, and contrasts what many have termed 'the golden age' of the mid-late 1980s, when the British Rail-government relationship was arguably at its most effective, with what has happened since 1994.
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