'Studies in Urban Transport' is a collection fo revised version of the papers
already publiseh din various popular and specialized Journals in India and
abroad. The sixteen papers selected in this volume wre devoted to study the
reasons behind inefficiency and financial maladies that the owners of the
dominant urban transport modes suffer from and suggest some meaningful remedial
measures. In the process some theoretical questions relating to planning,
pricing, subsidy, criteria for judging efficiency of performance,were
encountered and sorted out for both public and private undertakings, giving
regard to their respective objectives. The problems of coordination fo modes and
urban land-use, which are major concerns of the