The Sahasara bus reforms project was initiated focusing on Central Province Passenger Transport Services Authority (CPPTSA) with the collaboration of Strategic Enterprise Management Agency (SEMA) under the technical consultancy of Department of Transport and Logistics Management, University of Moratuwa. Faced with traffic congestion, uncontrollable competition among buses and deficiencies in regulations for monitoring buses, Sahasara was introduced with the intention of enhancing the quality of public transportation. Sahasara bus reforms project amalgamates time tabling, scheduling, revenue settlement via revenue pooling, monitoring the operation of buses and strategic decision making into one framework. The study focuses on one of the main aspects of Sahasara: revenue settlement via revenue pooling. All revenue collected by buses operated flow into one common account which is then distributed among operated buses by considering cost index, operated distance (km’s), route type etc. Under the Sahasara project, four settlement systems were introduced for the distribution of pooled revenue.

Kumarage, A.S., Keerthisinghe, N.A.C.M., Samarasekera, N.A., & Silva, H.C.N. (2017). Analysis of the settlement of revenue pooling in the Sahasara bus reforms project [Extended Abstract]. In T.L. Gunaruwan (Ed.), Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Research for Transport and Logistics Industry 2017 (pp. 59-64). Sri Lanka Society of Transport and Logistics. https://slstl.lk/r4tli-2017/