Pricing and Cost Recovery in Long Distance Transport
Author: David Starkie
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1982-09-30
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers presented at a seminar held June 1981 and hosted by SA Dept of Transport. Covers the related problems of inadequate financial and economic performances in long distance multi modal transport. If balance can be achieved between conflicting objectives in context complicated by issues of constitutional sovereignity. New data on economic and financial structures of long distance transport modes and associated into a structure. Results of an extensive survey of physical distribution costs, factors influencing modal choice and and factors taken by shippers to control costs. Recent cost recovery developed in Australian transport. Transport regulation and the Interstate Commission. Pricing framework for cost recovery. Cost recovery an investment perspective. Track costs, road pricing and cost recovery. Long distance passenger and freight transport . Freight transport, problems and issues; Rail freight, heavy freight vehicles, coastal shipping freight forwarding. Passenger transport, problems and issues. Rail services, domestic air services, coach services. Implementation. Summary of discussions. Freight transport. Passenger transport. Modal choice. Road transport. Sea transport. Air transport. Trucks. Intermodal competition. Cost recovery. Road pricing. Freight forwarding. Rail freight transport. Regulation Distance. Heavy vehicles. Coastal shipping.