Quality Bus Partnerships – Implications for Market Performance

Policy towards local bus transport in Britain has been quite sharply cyclical. The late 1960s and 1970s saw the creation of a planned approach to the provision of local bus services, associated with the creation of the National Bus Company in public hands, the development of the Passenger Transport Executives in urban areas with important planning functions, and the growth of public subsidy from minimal to very significant levels during this period. By the end of this period economic and geographically based planning methods such as the NBC’s MAP, and Stephen Glaister’s METS model for efficient determination of fares and service policies had been developed.