This paper is the first in a series addressing public transport subsidy, with a special focus on a particular argument for subsidy known as the User Economies of Scale (UES) subsidy argument, using teh bus system in metropo litain Adelaide, South Australia, as a case study.

The current public transport policy focus in Adelaide is on the introduction of competitive tendering to improve productive efficiency, improve financial performance and reduce fiscal stress. Beyong this initiative, the question of public transport subsidy is also an issue of critical policy...

The provision of wheelchair accessible taxi services in Adelaide by the major service provider Access Cabs is summarised and assessed. The major problem experienced by users is the occurrence of substantial delays.

This paper is concerned with taxi travel affordability for people with disabilities. It shows that the money costs of travel for people with disabilities are significantly higher than those faced by public transport users without disabilities .

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...

We show that optimal public transport subsidy is sensitive to the use of alternative user cost models, and that a model based on cost minimisation principles may lead to an improvement in subsidy estimates. For the case of homogeneous consumers and non-peaked demand, the cost minimisation user...

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...