Characteristics of Effective Metropolitan Areawide Public Transit: A Comparison of European, Canadian, and Australian Case Studies

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Routes to Regional Transit Governance: Researching the Histories of and Cataloguing the Methods Used to Establish German Verkehrsverbünde

“…The other two types of network manager are regional transit agencies, which also provide regional coordination, and completely consolidated regional transit operators. DeRobertis et al found that the flexible nature of the Verkehrsverbund and its coordination-only properties made it well-suited for use in metropolitan regions with quickly growing suburbs, and that the ability of the Verkehrsverbund to coordinate fare policy, planning, schedules, and marketing enabled it to ensure high standards of quality for transit in regions that had one (14).…”

“…At this point, the RMV basically contained the entire Rhein-Main region. In addition to expanding the area covered by a Verkehrsverbund, the state of Hesse also assigned RMV the power to coordinate all transit within its area (14).…”