Institutional organisation and financing of public transport in 11 European countries

This report provides a brief overview of the institutional organisation and financing of public transport in the 11 European countries Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany, and Austria. For each country the state of the art of the way public transport sector is organised and the new "rules of the game" (understood as allocation of risk and responsibility for revenues, costs, organisation, planning management, and production) are described. Focus is kept on railway and local public transport services.