Thredbo Series: Recent submissions
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Getting Back On-Track or Going Off the Rails? An Assessment of Ownership and Organisational Reform of Railways in Western Europe
Published 1999-01-01This paper reports on work undertaken for the European Commission (EC) between 1996 and 1999. It is shown that despite reforms initiated by the EC Directive 91/440, the performance of 17 state owned western European rail ...Open AccessConference paper -
Overview of Public Transport in Canada and the United States
Published 1999-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
Public Transport Fare Subsidies for Children and the Elderly in Developing Countries
Published 1999-01-01A modification to an earlier formula for estimating public transport subisidisation requirements for developing countries is presented. The modification has been made to make the formula cater for the travel money expenditure ...Open AccessConference paper -
Regulated Monopolies in Urban Public Transport Can we Design Proper Regulations and Incentives?
Published 1999-01-01A model of the public transport company in Oslo is used to the design a system of price regulations and subsidies. The objective is to provide incentives for optimum provision of public transport services both for peak and ...Open AccessConference paper -
Appraisal of Non-commercial Passenger Rail Services in Britain
Published 1999-01-01The appraisal of proposals for adding or withdrawing individual rail services is inevitably complex, because it needs to recognise interdependence both within the rail network and between transport modes, and to account ...Open AccessConference paper