Abstract
In all the cities of Serbia that have organized systems of public mass passenger transport (PMPT), over the past several years more and more private transport companies are being included in the network of city and suburban transportation lines. The inclusion of private transport companies in the PMPT system via public tenders should be preceded by the procedure of calculation of the realistic income and system functioning expenses in order to establish possible balances of needs for City Budget subsidies, as well as the elements on Contract of entrusting this vital communal activity of every city. The new principle for determining the total cost of PMPT system functioning, based on line difficulty ranking, has been presented in this paper. KEY WORDS: expenditure model, price, PMPT system, line, exploitation parameters, evaluation, line rank
Highlights
During the 1990s dramatic changes happened in almost all the cities and towns with organized public mass passenger transport (PMPT) systems: a lot of people moved into towns/cities, economic stability of population decreased, there were changes in legal and political areas of work and living that influenced an increase in PMPT system usage
Based on the line rank determined in this way, and in its function, norms or realistic expenditures of each line and the total for all the lines in the system – price of the PMPT system could be identified
Line categorization is based on the level of lines by subsystems given in advance - N, where the width of the level range GT, is determined as: GT
Summary
The role of public mass passenger transportation (PMPT) in the cities need not be proved nowadays, as it has been generally accepted that it represents a vital function in the lives of all the citizens, economy and activities in the city. It is a bigger problem how to make this system function better and more efficiently, and create the conditions for raising the transport service quality to a much higher level, making it closer to EU and the developed world city trends. Key trends in this activity are: –– commitment and care of local communities to provide mobility of citizens and PMPT, with limited use of passenger cars, according to sustainable development and quality of life strategies;. The basic aim of this paper is the presentation of possible procedure for determining the realistic total cost of PMPT system functioning in such manner that the expenditure is established in the function of different conditions of vehicle exploitation by lines or their rank (line rank)
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