This paper addresses the link between the degree of unreliability of bus services and the level of optimal bus subsidy. With unreliability influencing user cost, and user cost being a key determinant of optimal bus subsidy, it follows that there is a link between service unreliability and...

Conventional analysis of pollution control policy under uncertainty does not properly account for the potential cost effectiveness difference between standards and charges, thus drawing misleading conclusions for the case of inefficient standards. Correcting for this anomaly, the following...

This paper presents a new graphical analysis of how a profit-maximizing firm will respond when required to control pollution. The focus is on graphical presentations which attempt to integrate the two pollution reduction responses open to the firm: output reduction and use of abatement...

This paper considers the user economies of scale public transport subsidy argument, using buses in Adelaide as a case study. The paper operates at a corridor level; models user choice between random and planned behavior using a logit model; uses a peak load model; models existing social justice...