Public Transport Pricing in Nigeria

Ownership in Land Transport Optimal Pricing and Financing of Public Transport under Competition

During the last two decades a deregulation trend has flourished. In Western Europe this trend commenced within local and regional public transport. The privatisation of the English bus industry, even the long distance coach services, represents the "full market solution", where both supply, prices and the operation are in the hands of competing profit maximising firms. In the Nordic countries a...

Direction dependent prices in public transport: A good idea? The back haul pricing problem for a monopolistic public transport firm

Markets for transport are often characterised by unequal demand in both directions: every morning during peak hours the trains are crowded while moving towards the direction of large cities, whereas they may be almost empty in the other direction. In this paper we discuss the implications of these imbalances for price setting of transport firms. From the viewpoint of economic theory, two regime...

Optimal public transport pricing: Flat pricing vs. user-specific marginal social cost charging

Public health in Nigeria.

Public Transport Ontology for Passenger Information Retrieval

Passenger information aims at improving the user-friendliness of public transport systems while influencing passenger route choices to satisfy transit user’s travel requirements. The integration of transit information from multiple agencies is a major challenge in implementation of multi-modal passenger information systems. The problem of information sharing is further compounded by the multi-l...