Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Public and Private Provision of Transit in the United States -- 3 Conceptual Framework and Previous Studies on Contracting -- 4 Transit Service Contracting in the United States: Extent and Practice -- 5 Transit Contracting Experiences and Advice from General Managers -- 6 Summary and Assessment -- A ppendix A Transit Contracting and Privatization Initiatives in Western Europe -- Appendix B Transit Contracting Survey Parts 1 and 2 with List of Recipients and Respondents -- Appendix C Tabulations of Responses to Survey Part 1 -- Appendix D Tabulations of Responses to Survey Part 2 -- Study Committee Biographical Information.