Public Transportation in the 1980's: Responding to Pressures of Fiscal Austerity

摘要

Many public transit agencies are beginning to face serious difficulties in obtaining the financial support needed to operate service at previous levels. Local pressures for fiscal austerity, and the resulting competing demands for oftentimes less money, have severely constrained many transit agencies. These transit agencies are facing some difficult choices in responding to government cutbacks in funding support. The purpose of this research was to examine how transit agencies are responding to these fiscal pressures and to identify actions that could be taken to ease the transition to a resource-scarce environment.