Appraisal of public-private partnership in public transport service delivery: A case of Metro Mass Transit (MMT) Limited, Ghana

The study was designed to examine public-private partnership in the provision of transport service in Ghana using the Metro Mass Transit (MMT) as a case study. The study employed descriptive and case study research designs. The convenience and the purposive sampling methods were used to draw 574 respondents made up of 540 passengers of MMT, 20 management staff of MMT and the 7 officials each from the 7 shareholders of the MMT Limited. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from respondents. Percentages, frequencies and graphs were used to present the data. The outcome of the study revealed that to a large extent, the MMT (PPP) has some inherent prospects as identified by the users of the MMT transport services. The prospects according to the users included: affordable MMT transport fares and attractiveness of MMT buses. Nevertheless, the MMT is challenged in its operations. Prominent among the challenges were: untimely movement of buses, revenue leakages, loss of revenue and non-payment of dividends. Judging from the potentials of the MMT Limited it is recommended that pragmatic measures should be put in place to check revenue leakages.