Privatization and Deregulation of Transport

by W. Bradshaw (Editor), H. Lawton Smith (Editor)

Overview

The papers which make up the chapters of this book were given at a seminar in Oxford. The event took place following the election of the first Labour government for seventeen years and following an announcement of the consultation process leading up to the publication of a Transport White Paper. The debates in the book contain reflections on the legacy of the previous administration and the challenges facing the new government.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333790397
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/03/2000
Series:	Studies in Regulation
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	439
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

BILL BRADSHAW was for 30 years a career railwayman during which time he held three senior executive positions as Director of Operations, Director of the Policy Unit and General Manager of the Western Region. Following a back injury he left British Rail and became Chairman of Ulsterbus, Professor of Transport Management of Salford University and has been a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Wolfson College Oxford since 1986. During the last Parliament he was Specialist Adviser to the Transport Select Committee of the House of Commons.

HELEN LAWTON SMITH is Reader in Local Economic Development at Coventry Business School (in the Centre for Local Economic Development, Coventry University). She is also Senior Research Associate at the School of Geography, Oxford University. Her research interests include scientific labour markets in transition, regional innovation infrastructures and science and technology policy.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Introduction; B.Bradshaw & H.Lawton Smith Regulation of Transport: An Overview; A.Burchell PART II: BUS INDUSTRY Experience in the UK Bus and Coach Industry; P.White Competition and Local Bus Services; M.Parr Rural Transport After the Deregulation of Buses; A.Root PART III: RAILWAYS The Privatisation of British Rail; R.Davies Railway Regulation: Looking Ahead to the Millennium; C.Bolt Liberalised Access to the Railway Network; P. O Donnell Privatisation and Deregulation in Railways: An Assessment of the British Approach; C.Nash Regulation and Deregulation in a Subsidised Industry; Passenger Rail Franchising; B.Stannard Competitive Behaviour in Britain's Privatised Rail Industry; M.Schabas Japan Railways since Privatisation; F.Mizutani & K.Nakamura The Impact of Deregulation of the Planning System on the Ridership Potential of Local Rail Networks: 1979-95; R.Haywood PART IV: FREIGHT INDUSTRY A Comparison of Deregulation in the Road Haulage Markets of the UK, the EU and the USA; M.Browne & J.Allen PART V: AIRLINES The Ownership and Regulation of International Airlines; K.Button Development of Airport Slot Allocation Regulation in the European Community; C.Castles Allocating Airport Slots: A Role for the Market?; D.Starkie Whither Airport Regulation?; S.Condie PART VI: PORTS AND CHANNEL TUNNEL Privatisation and Deregulation in Seaports; A.J.Baird Nostra Culpae : Forecasts and Out-turns of Cross Channel Competition Between the Ferries and the Tunnel; S.Szymanski Index