Università della Svizzera italiana

Competitive tendering and optional size in the regional bus transportation industry

Cambini, Carlo ; Filippini, Massimo

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. This paper’s aim is to analyze the topic by combining some empirical results and evidence from recent experience [developments] in the Italian regional bus industry. The empirical...