Competitive Tendering and Optimal Size in the Regional Bus Transportation Industry: An Example from Italy

When defining how to implement tendering procedures for the regional bus transportation industry, one of the main problems local authorities have to face is setting the area size to be assigned as franchised monopoly. Copyright 2003 CIRIEC.

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