The strategy of contracting out some of the operating services to
private operators is a public bus sector reform that has attracted
considerable attention among researchers. Under the national
government’s legislation (Road Transport Carriers’ Act 2000), this
type of service contracting can be delegated both by the garage unit
and the route unit on the basis of a gross-cost contract for a fixed
five-year period. This is called the Management Contract at Garage
Level (MCGL) system. Thus, it can be considered that the supply
system is being restructured in the remaining publicly-owned
transportation frameworks.