Recent UK Experience of the Influence of Regulation on Performance

Experience gained from past practice is useful since it can help inform policymakers as to future directions. However, the British bus industry is poised to pass into a new era by the abolition of road service licensing, i.e. deregulating route and quantity control. The 1985 Transport Act intends to restructure the industry and as well. The intention of deregulation is to eliminate damaging cross-subsidy and reduce revenue support by the rigors imposed through competition on the road. This paper will review recent experience and events and the circumstances that shaped them. The outgoing regulatory system will be described and an examination of the recent performance of various sectors of the British bus industry is presented.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of British Columbia, Vancouver

  Centre for Transportation Studies
  Vancouver, British Columbia  Canada  V6T 1W5
• Authors:
  • Turner, R P
  • White, P R
• Conference:
  • Research for Tomorrow's Transport Requirements. Proceedings of the Fourth World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
  • Date: 1986-5-0 to 1986-5-0
• Publication Date: 1986

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 355-374
• Monograph Title: Research for Tomorrow’s Transport Requirements

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transit; Bus transit operations; Bus transportation; Competition; Cross subsidization; Deregulation; Policy making; Regulations
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Law; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01082487
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 18 2007 11:29AM