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Improving Public Transit Services: Does Collaborative Transit Services Among Public Transit Providers Make Them More Efficient?, Victor U. Ibewuike

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The network effect is the postulation that the utility of a product to a consumer increases as its consumption increases (Clement, 2004). If a parallel is drawn in transit service usage, the utility for transit services will increase to users as transit ridership increases. Different public transit providers within a metropolitan region can expand their area of transit services which would improve the utilization of their services through collaboration of transit services with other public transit providers within their service regions. Does such added utilization result in the increase of productive or technical efficiency levels for participating public transit providers? …