Saturday

Privatisation: Aviation

Air economics and privatisation

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

Oil supply

Read this...


Economics sense!

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

Explain how economists make forecasts of air passenger transport demand. (10 mks)
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

Three links to keep an eye on

TSR

Tutor2u

Economics teacher

Road Pricing

Motorists embarrass ministers

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