Private Services vs. Municipal Regulations

 

Sigurd Grava

Abstract unavailable. Introduction It has been well established by this time that urban residents cannot and will not tolerate the absence or a significant service deficiency in transportation. No matter where they live, they have to be able to move around the city with some dispatch, since relatively few of the daily tasks can be accomplished within the neighborhood walking radius, which most probably does not include the reaching of jobs. As has been documented with increasing thoroughness, in the cities of the developing world the normal response frequently has been the spontaneous creation of services by entrepreneurs, which range from a simple sale of rides by a few individuals along a route to situations where the private sector is entirely responsible for the maintenance of "public" mobility across a metropolitan space...