@article{ref1,
title="Factors Behind Recent Bus Patronage Trends in Britain and Their Implications for Future Policy",
journal="International journal of transport economics",
year="2009",
author="White, Priscilla",
volume="36",
number="1",
pages="13-31",
abstract="In October 1986, local bus service was deregulated (i.e. price and quantity controls were removed) in Great Britain, with the exception of London and Northern Ireland. By 1989, despite a greater growth in bus-kilometers being run outside London, there was a noticeable drop in market stability. In London, however, a broadly stable market was observed. The author examines principal factors affecting ridership; overall British trends; the London market at the beginning of the discussed period; trends in bus kilometers run; trends in real fare levels; observed and expected ridership changes; exogenous factors; effects of the congestion charge; quantified components of London growth; trends on the London Underground system; cost trends; public expenditures on London buses; some other statistical interpretation; and London lesson application in the rest of Great Britain.<p />",
language="",
issn="0391-8440",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}