Transport - Eleventh Report

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 18 October 2006.

Contents

Terms of Reference

1 Introduction

2 The current situation

Regulatory structure

Declining passenger numbers

3 Making Quality Contracts Work

Problems in Passenger Transport Authority areas

The PTA view

PTA relations with bus operators

The London comparison

4 Quality Contracts in PTA areas

Why have there been no Quality Contracts?

Possibility of legal challenge

The need for Quality Contracts

5 'Beefed up' Traffic Commissioners

6 Securing socially necessary services outside the PTAs

Rising costs and operator profit

Operator withdrawal from non-core routes

Community transport

7 Competition Act

8 Congestion and bus priority

Impact of congestion

Enforcing bus priority

9 Concessionary fares

Target groups: pensioners and children/students

Reimbursement system for operators

10 The Image of the bus

Crime and anti-social behaviour

Role of the Department

11 Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of unprinted written evidence

Reports from the Transport Committee since 2005

ORAL AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE
Oral Evidence - 21 June 2006
Oral Evidence - 28 June 2006

Written Evidence

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Prepared 26 October 2006