Pricing and Cost Recovery in Long Distance Transport

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Setting the Scene

   1. Recent Cost Recovery Developments in Australian Transport

      • P. W. Blackshaw

      Pages 1-17

   2. Transport Regulation and the Inter-State Commission

      • H. M. Kolsen, G. E. Docwra

      Pages 19-47

   3. A Pricing Framework for Cost Recovery

      • J. H. E. Taplin

      Pages 49-60

   4. Cost Recovery: An Investment Perspective

      • D. N. M. Starkie

      Pages 61-75

   5. Track Costs, Road Pricing and Cost Recovery

      • G. E. Docwra, H. M. Kolsen

      Pages 77-92

3. Sector Reviews

   1. Long-Distance Passenger Transport

      • J. W. Moll

      Pages 93-120

   2. Long Distance Freight Transport: With Emphasis on Non-Bulk Freight

      • G. Mansfield, D. Russell, M. Grenning

      Pages 121-156

4. Freight Transport, Problems and Issues

   1. Rail Freight

      • P. R. Grimwood, J. K. Stanley

      Pages 157-165

   2. Heavy Freight Vehicles

      • R. J. Filmer, A. R. Scott, D. S. Short

      Pages 167-183

   3. Coastal Shipping

      • P. F. Amos

      Pages 185-196

   4. Freight Forwarding

      • F. N. Affleck

      Pages 197-208

5. Passenger Transport, Problems and Issues

   1. Rail Services

      • M. Michell

      Pages 209-223

   2. Domestic Air Services: A Western Australian View

      • F. D. Gallagher

      Pages 225-242

   3. Coach Services

      • D. K. Johnston

      Pages 243-254

6. Implementation

   1. Multitudes, Multitudes in the Valley Of Decision: Reflections on Policy Implementation

      • S. K. Hicks

      Pages 255-275

7. Summary of Discussion and Seminar Conclusions

   1. Summary of Discussion and Seminar Conclusions

      • D. N. M. Starkie, M. R. Grenning, M. M. Starrs

      Pages 277-291

8. Back Matter

   Pages 293-301

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The 1977 BTE Report on Cost Recovery in Australian Transport 1974-75 provided estimates of the aggregate level of financial cos~ recovery in the various modes, by broad transport task. It suggested that there were substantial differences between modes in the level of cost recovery. The 1979 Transport Pricing and Cost Recovery seminar concluded that economic efficiency objectives required more attention 1n transport pricing and investment decisions than had been apparent in the past. The principles for economically efficient pricing were spelt out, and several specific issues were identified, which are worth following up in this seminar. These include reconciliation of financial and econom1C efficiency objectives and the identification of appropriate revenue targets; specification of the changes 1n accounting and management information systems which would be required to implement more economically rational pricing; and identification of the principles for estimating compensation for public service obligations. Finally, a brief account 18 given of recent BTE work on cost recovery in general aviation, and in road and rail transport. BTE has suggested that econom1C efficiency considerations would require substantial modification to the present means of collecting revenue from general aviation, with more reliance placed on direct pricing measures like flight-specific alr navigation charges and airport movement charges. On road-rail competition, an order of magnitude comparison of road and rail cost recovery in the Adelaide-Victorian border corridor suggests that only the road mode approximately covers short-run avoidable costs and that both modes fail to cover long-run avoidable costs.

• accounting
• competition
• development
• efficiency
• information
• information system
• investment
• management
• management information system
• organization
• pricing
• regulation
• science and technology
• service
• transport

• University of Adelaide, Australia

  D. N. M. Starkie

• Department of Transport, Australia

  M. R. Grenning

• South Australian Department of Transport, Australia

  M. M. Starrs

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