Competitive Tendering in local Public Transport - status 1995

From April 15. 1994 the Norwegian counties have legal access to use tendering as an instrument for buying public transport services from operators. This report gives a survey of today’s organisation, company structure, division of responsibility and plan for tendering and other arrangements to finance public transport in the counties. The report gives a review of the experience from tenders in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Possible strategies for later analysis of effecs of tendering in Norway are discussed.