The purpose of this paper is, on the one hand, to analyze the management models that Law
7/1985, of April 2, 1985, regulating the Local Regime Bases, offers to the Provincial Capital
Cities of the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León in Spain, a Member State of the
European Union, for the provision of public urban transport services. And on the other hand,
in line with and in relation to the previous premise, to study how it influences and determines,
depending on the form of management of the public service of urban transport chosen by
each town council, which articles of Law 9/2017, of November 8, on Public Sector
Contracts, should be applied.
From the study of these issues, it will be concluded that the level of application of the
contractual legislation will not be the same, it will be disruptive and unequal, which requires
a necessary legislative modification that equates the application of the contractual
regulations, regardless of the model of management of the urban transport public service that
the Municipalities decide to adopt.
