Public transport provision requires substantial organisational efforts, careful planning, financial contributions from the public, and coordination between millions of passengers and staff members in large systems. Efficient resource allocation is critical in its daily operations. Therefore, public transport has been among the most popular subjects in transport economics since the infancy of this discipline. This paper presents an overview of the literature developed over the past half century, including more than 300 important contributions. With a strong methodological orientation, it collects, classifies, and compares the frequently used analytical modelling techniques, thus providing a cookbook for future research and learning efforts. We discuss key findings on optimal capacity provision, pricing, cost recovery and subsidies, externalities, private operations, public service regulation, and cross-cutting subjects, such as interlinks with urban economics, political economy, and emerging mobility technologies.

提供公共交通需要大量的组织工作，周密的计划，公众的财政贡献以及大型系统中数百万乘客和工作人员之间的协调。有效的资源分配在其日常运营中至关重要。因此，自该学科诞生以来，公共交通一直是交通经济学中最受欢迎的学科之一。本文概述了过去半个世纪以来的文献，包括300多个重要的著作。它以强大的方法论取向为基础，收集，分类和比较常用的分析建模技术，从而为将来的研究和学习提供了参考。我们讨论了有关最佳产能配置，定价，成本回收和补贴，外部性，