Saturday
Privatisation: Aviation
Air traffic control and privatisation (more research nedeed - this article is just a start)
Book: air privatisation
Partial privatisation
Secret plot to privatise....
Markets...
Pie in the sky not working
Passenger terminals
Safety
Airspace - final frontier
Air traffic sell-off
25 topics to revise
1) Outline the characteristics of the main modes of transport
2) Explain why transport is derived demand
3) Explain how to measure transport demand
4) Explain how transport forecasts are made and why
5) Explain how some of the main ways in which transport sector can be described through the data
6) Outline economies of scale and their application to transport
7) Describe contestability in transport markets
8) Describe barriers to entry and their applciation to the transport market
9) Outline the natural monopoly case for transport
10) Describe deregulation in the transport markete
11) Explain and describe privatisation in the transport market
12) Explain negative externalities due to ever increasing transport demand
13) Describe how transport interacts with the environment
14) Describe and evaluate sustainability issues in transport
15) Explain why traffic congestion is a cause of market failure
16) Describe the costs of congestion
17) Explain how to deal with congestion
18) Describe road pricing schemes
19) Outline how other countries tackle congestion
20) Describe the role of private and public sectors in transport
21) Explain what is meant by cost benefit analysis, when it is used and its limitations (transport)
22) Explain how the government approaches new road schemes
23) Describe integrated transport policy
24) Describe the main features of the current transport policy
25) Outline sustainable transport policy
Exam questions
Discuss the implications for government policy of the projected increase in demand for air passenger transport.(15 mks)
Explain the factors that have influenced the growth in demand for private car use. (10 mks)
Discuss the extent to which a national road user charging scheme could reverse the growth in demand for private car use. (15 mks)
With the aid of a diagram explain how atmospheric pollution associated with increased transport use causes a misallocation of resources.(10 mks)
Discuss the extent to which increased indirect taxes on transport users might correct the market failure caused by atmospheric pollution associated with increased transport use.(15 mks)
Mark schemes
Road Pricing
Spy in the sky
Road pricing is two years away
Road pricing - the case for and against
The rise of road pricing
Other methods to tackle congestion
Public acceptability of road pricing
Road pricing feasability study
Public attitudes to road pricing
How road pricing can be introduced in the UK
Acceptability of road pricing models
Business case road pricing