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Rural Transport Needs
Author(s) -
Coles Oliver B.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9515.1986.tb00247.x
Subject(s) - shire , equity (law) , subsidy , public economics , business , public transport , government (linguistics) , service (business) , politics , public service , economics , marketing , public administration , political science , geography , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , law , market economy
There have been important stimuli to the intensive applied study of rural public passenger transport over the past decade. These include legal obligations placed on the shire counties (of 1974) to co‐ordinate provision with regard to need, rural residents’access to services, and the demands from both academic and political quarters for the rigorous assessment of local government services and functions. There are certain methodological “loose connections”. Examined here is the concern with objective service quality measures linked to observed consumer behaviour as the source of information. Undue importance has been attached to the study of consumers’adaptation to service loss, at the expense of interest in questions of equity and absolute service levels. The resulting model promises both to assist in ensuring that equity and opportunity costs of subsidies are explicitly considered, and to highlight localities in which detailed household surveys and accessibility measurement excercises can most fruitfully be employed.