期刊
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE
卷 87, 期 -, 页码 22-40出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2016.02.013
关键词
Risk attitude; Perceptual conditioning; Performance incentives; Performance-based contracts; Cost-plus contracts; Fixed-fee contracts
资金
- Volvo Research and Education Foundation Bus Rapid Transit Centre of Excellence
Contracts that govern transactions between regulators and operators are an important feature of service delivery in public transport. This paper reviews the literature on efficient contracting in general and its application to public transport contracts and found little empirical evidence on the influence of risk preferences of contracting agents on contract choice, a fundamental premise of classical contracting theory. Departing from the existing literature, this paper develops a choice experiment to study public transport operators' preferences for different contractual forms. People involved in the public transport industry across Australia are invited to do the survey but the respondents are mainly bus operators in New South Wales. The respondents are offered two hypothetical contracts with different risk profiles and incentives and asked to indicate their preferences as well as their acceptance to provide the services under the contract they prefer. A non-linear scaled multihomial logit model is estimated to establish the role of risk allocation on contract preference of bus operators and the optimal amount of risks and incentives, conditioned on the operators' attitude towards risk. The results help authorities design performance based contracts to obtain their objectives while maintaining the operators' level of satisfaction. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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