Transport Pricing and Public Policy: A Consumer Viewpoint

This paper describes how the theme of this conference is “Transport Pricing and Public Policy” and that is certainly an important topic in Canada today, both to the carriers and to the consuming public. This paper will be concerned with discussing this theme from the consumer’s viewpoint and this is not an easy task. It is a difficult undertaking to presume to speak for the entire population of the country, since every citizen is a consumer and every citizen has different needs and demands of the transportation industry and different concerns over its operation. The consumer interest will be used here in its collective sense, with an attempt to put forward certain general principles that are relevant to consumers as a whole versus any particular individual. The paper will also concentrate on the regulation of transportation as this is the primary vehicle in Canada at the present time for governing transportation prices and thereby implicitly or explicitly setting and/or sanctioning public policy on transportation services.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Forum

  P.O. Box 5074
  Fargo, ND  United States  58105
• Authors:
  • Lesser, Barry
• Publication Date: 1977

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Volume XVIII, Number 1
• Pagination: pp 37-39
• Monograph Title: Transportation in Transition. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Consumers; Cost of service pricing; Policy, legislation and regulation; Pricing; Public policy; Transportation planning; Value of service pricing
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01103304
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 24 2008 7:47AM