Public Policy and Transit System Management

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The history of transit system management in the United States has largely been a history of failure--failure to come to grips with the real issues involved and failure to develop effective policies for an efficient and rational system. This book, the first major survey in more than a decade, catalogues management attempts to overcome constraints imposed by external institutional and sociopolitical factors, as well as by internal labor and resource problems. In combining actual case histories with academic insights, it offers managers and consultants the tools to make transit systems work.

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This book catalogues management attempts to overcome constraints imposed by external institutional and socio-political factors, as well as by internal labor and resource problems. In combining actual case histories with academic insights, it offers managers and consultants the tools to make transit systems work. The history of transit system management in the United States has largely been a history of failure.-RPGP
"This book catalogues management attempts to overcome constraints imposed by external institutional and socio-political factors, as well as by internal labor and resource problems. In combining actual case histories with academic insights, it offers managers and consultants the tools to make transit systems work. The history of transit system management in the United States has largely been a history of failure."-RPGP

Author Bio

GEORGE M. GUESS is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at Georgia State University. He is the author of The Politics of United States Foreign Aid and Cases in Public Policy Analysis. Guess has also written numerous articles appearing in Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Administration Quarterly, and International Journal of Public Administration.