Estimating welfare changes from efficient pricing in public bus transit in India

Deb, Kaushik; Filippini, Massimo

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.05.004

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“…The output (Q) re ‡ects the demand and is measured by passenger kilometers, used also in similar studies. 11 Other authors use supply-related output measures such as seat 1 1 See, for instance, Windle (1988), Deb andFilippini (2011), Bhattacharyya et al (1995), or bus kilometers. 12 De Borger and Kerstens (2008) note that both supply and demand related output measures are relevant.…”

Section: Model Speci…cation and Estimation Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Competitive tendering versus performance-based negotiation in Swiss public transport

Filippini

Koller

Masiero

2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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The purpose of this study is to assess di¤erences in the levels of cost e¢ ciency of bus lines operated under competitively tendered contracts and performance-based negotiated contracts. Following the revision of the Swiss railways act in 1996, regional public authorities were given the choice between two di¤erent contractual regimes to procure public passenger transport services. We directly compare the impact of competitive tendering and performance-based negotiation by applying a stochastic frontier analysis to the complete dataset of bus lines (n=630) operated by the main Swiss company (Swiss Post) at the same time (in 2009) throughout the country. The overall results show that the di¤erences in the levels of cost e¢ ciency between the two contractual regimes are not signi…cant. Our …ndings are in line with recent evidence of cost convergence between competitive tendering and performance-based negotiation, and suggest that the practice of using both contractual regimes is challenging for the operators in terms of competitive pressure. The threat of competitive tendering may have a disciplining e¤ect on negotiation since it prevents bus companies from bargaining inadequate rents and inducing asymmetric information advantages.

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Section: Model Speci…cation and Estimation Methodsmentioning

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Competitive tendering versus performance-based negotiation in Swiss public transport

Filippini

Koller

Masiero

2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…This kind of pricing system has too large inertia for DRT systems, since it can only adapt prices to demands (based on users' decision variables) after the end of the validity period of the defined pricing interval can be further broken down to separate consumer segments in the case of DRT (e.g. based on spatial, temporal or social aspects) (Deb, Filippini 2011).…”

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New pricing theory of intelligent flexible transportation

Andrejszki

Török

2015

Transport

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Abstract. In the paper, possible pricing structures of flexible transport systems have been investigated. After a brief introduction into demand responsive systems, the currently used pricing systems have been analysed. Having reviewed the conventional pricing methodologies -in line with the average cost and marginal cost based methods -the advantages and the disadvantages of particular systems are presented. What is more, that traditional pricing theory enabled to order costs of flexible transportation systems only approximately to passengers in proportion to their demanded transportation performance, thus traditional pricing framework is not able to fully meet the principle of fairness. For reaching the highest level of fairness loops a fictive unit of individual trips is introduced as the base of pricing. When applying individual loops is gives a unique approach to describe unit cost of the operators especially considering that empty runs are taken into account in a fair way. Beside fairness, it is also an essential objective to represent economies of scale and the preference of early bookings in the pricing methodology. Accordingly, the below presented 'mixed price system' had good results in the reduction of average fares related to new travellers and also in the improvement of attraction related to 'early birds' . Therefore, the goal of this research was to define the direction and the aspects of the development process related to the pricing methods of flexible transportation.

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“…It follows that socially equitable transportation is concerned with fairness in the distribution of transport investments, internal and external costs, and benefits (Garrett and Taylor, 1999;Martens, 2009). The evaluation of costs may pertain to environmental justice (Lucas, 2004), public health externalities (Frumkin, 2002), or to fiduciary expenses such as tax burdens (Wachs, 2003;King, 2011), tolls and congestion pricing (Giuliano, 1994;Plotnick et al, 2011), and transit prices and fare structures (Cervero, 1990;Deb and Filippini, 2011;Fan and Huang, 2011).…”

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Assessing social equity in distance based transit fares using a model of travel behavior

Farber

Bartholomew²,

Xiao

et al. 2014

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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a b s t r a c tThe goal of this study is to develop and apply a new method for assessing social equity impacts of distance-based public transit fares. Shifting to a distance-based fare structure can disproportionately favor or penalize different subgroups of a population based on variations in settlement patterns, travel needs, and most importantly, transit use. According to federal law, such disparities must be evaluated by the transit agency, but the area-based techniques identified by the Federal Transit Authority for assessing discrimination fail to account for disparities in distances travelled by transit users. This means that transit agencies currently lack guidelines for assessing the social equity impacts of replacing flat fare with distance-based fare structures. Our solution is to incorporate a joint ordinal/continuous model of trip generation and distance travelled into a GIS Decision Support System. The system enables a transit planner to visualize and compare distance travelled and transit-cost maps for different population profiles and fare structures. We apply the method to a case study in the Wasatch Front, Utah, where the Utah Transit Authority is exploring a switch to a distance-based fare structure. The analysis reveals that overall distance-based fares benefit low-income, elderly, and non-white populations. However, the effect is geographically uneven, and may be negative for members of these groups living on the urban fringe.

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Estimating welfare changes from efficient pricing in public bus transit in India

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Competitive tendering versus performance-based negotiation in Swiss public transport

Competitive tendering versus performance-based negotiation in Swiss public transport

New pricing theory of intelligent flexible transportation

Assessing social equity in distance based transit fares using a model of travel behavior

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