Transport

Public transport: policy, regulation, performance and privatisation

ACIL Tasman has broad experience in public transport reform, including advice on privatisation/franchising arrangements, deregulation and public transport reform.

Examples of previous assignments include:

economic and commercial principles in privatised public transport
subsidy, performance measurement and incentives
international comparison, competition and benchmarking
quality regulation, such as reliability, punctuality, cleanliness, staff attitudes
taxi services, deregulation and integration with public transport services
deregulation and privatisation options
modelling and financial analysis
public transport privatisation.

ACIL Tasman has addressed a range of issues including alternative institutional forms, the case for privatisation, competition for the market through retendering, economies of scale, network effects, yardstick competition through disaggregation, revenue pooling, vertical separation or integration of infrastructure, and rolling stock and infrastructure leases, and performance measurement and incentives.

See our public transport case studies.