Print Email Facebook Twitter Superincentive public transport contracting in the greater Amsterdam area Title Superincentive public transport contracting in the greater Amsterdam area Author Bakker, B. Van de Velde, D.M. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Multi Actor Systems Date 2009-09-20 Abstract All suburban/regional bus services around Amsterdam City have been submitted to competitive tendering. This is done under a very innovative form of revenue-based contract that can be classified as a ‘super incentive’ contract. Payments to operators (‘subsidies’) are based on realised passenger revenues and no longer on the costs of supplying public transport. Because of the fact that fare increases are regulated by the authority, increase in revenues can only be achieved by an increase in ridership, which is one of the main long term goals of the authority. At the same time, and to provide for a well-balanced contract, operators are also allowed to re-design services within some strict boundaries set by the authority (such as a detailed minimal level of supply). The awarding procedure was designed such as to lead to a high level of self-regulation, preventing bidders to exaggerate their revenue growth forecasts at tendering in order to win the contract. This paper presents the contractual features and the design of the competitive tendering process that has led to the calibration of the superincentives given to the operators. It also presents the results achieved in terms of passenger growth. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7c184273-a4b3-4cfb-bf95-a9ffd9a3d173 Source 11th International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport, Delft, The Netherlands, 20-25 September 2009 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2009 Bakker, B.Van de Velde, D.M. Files PDF vandeVelde_2009.pdf 69.37 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7c184273-a4b3-4cfb-bf95-a9ffd9a3d173/datastream/OBJ/view