Abstract Book of the 7th International Conference on New Trends in Management, Business and Economics
Year: 2025
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Impacts of Coproduction on Public Transport Infrastructure
Jan P. Voon
ABSTRACT:
Coproduction is viewed in this paper as joint effort or cooperation between citizens and transport infrastructure service providers. There is a paucity of studies on the impact of coproduction on public transport infrastructure. Poor transport infrastructure development poses a financial burden to many developing countries. In this paper, we use road maintenance as the example of public transport infrastructure. Using the Afro-barometer wave-6 dataset on Uganda, we develop the appropriate coproduction indexes as well as the road maintenance performance indexes from the survey data. Our results show that coproduction has significantly positive impacts on road maintenance performance (RMP), which raises social welfare and economic development. Our results are robust to various model specifications and the conclusions remain valid after controlling for any potential endogenous influence or reverse causality problem that might arise. Our analysis points to the practical importance of cooperation between community and government in transport infrastructure provision such as road maintenance. It also provides practical implications for policy makers on how coproduction between community and government could be arranged.
Keywords: Coproduction, transport infrastructure, road maintenance performance, community, government, cooperation