Small Entrepreneurs in Urban Bus Public Transportation in Ankara

This book is, in a sense, the embodiment of both quantitative and quali-tative results related to urban transport decision making processes that emerge after the challenging and long-term thesis doctoral education process. Context of the book mainly focuses on shovving how private urban transport entrepre-neurs fiil the urban transportation service gap created by local governments, which cannot provide services against the rapidly grovving and concentrated population in cities, and then have a priority status. Besides that, the context shed lights on how private urban transport entrepreneurs produce and distrib-ute transport rent through different transport models and mechanisms in dif-ferent regions of the city. The book also tends to make a contribution to our knovvledge of the fıeld by explaining the historical and successive state and market failures in the provision of urban public transport services and how private urban entrepreneurs are involved in the urban decision-making mech-anism, under the influence of the regulations enacted.