Learning through the UK’s Experience on Getting Rid of Exclusory Access to the Infrastructure in Bus Service

Abstract

A bus station and a bus stop compose a part of the infrastructure indispensable to bus service. In the UK they conceived and have worked out a scheme to accelerate fair competition in the local bus service. Its aim is to allow the juniors to use its bus stations and bus stands on equal terms with the senior bus operators. Though the UK’s successful outcome has been brought in their own social-economic and cultural context, their experience can be a good example for Japan in managing the fair bus market system.