Shipping offers only a tiny bit of competition the rail freight but barely any with road freight
Source: International freight transport services | Productivity Commission of New Zealand.
@jamespeshaw only 8% of freight is contestable by coastal shipping
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: celebrity technologies, New Zealand Greens
@JulieAnneGenter road, rail & ships are not substitute modes
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, transport economics Tags: celebrity technologies, New Zealand Greens
@jamespeshaw how many domestic shipping services in NZ? 16!
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, transport economics Tags: celebrity technologies, coastal shipping, New Zealand Greens
Of the 4.2 billion million tons of annual coastal shipping in New Zealand, 2.32 million tons of that is petroleum products. The majority of coastal shipping is petroleum products redistributed from the one refinery in New Zealand to the rest of the country. You can’t double that which the Greens wanted to because it is already at its upper limit.
Source: Coastal shipping and modal freight choice | NZ Transport Agency.
@JulieAnneGenter doesn’t know what is shipped through ports
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics Tags: celebrity technologies, New Zealand Greens
The Greens today announced a policy to double the amounts of cargo moved by train and shipping. It seems to have forgotten that most cargo moved by ship is bulk cargoes such as cars. Nothing can change the fact that once the ship is unloaded, the cars have to go by truck to the car yard.
Source: New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. Port study 2 Final report NZIER report to Auckland Council (3 February 2015).
Washington D.C.’s disastrous new streetcar line
21 May 2016 Leave a comment
in technological progress, transport economics Tags: buses, celebrity technologies, light rail
More aircraft should have belly cam as a safety measure
21 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, transport economics Tags: air crashes
The surprising number of our accidents result from cabin crew not knowing how badly damaged parts of the aircraft are or the engine is on fire or has fallen off. This should be solved by been able to turn on cameras that give pilots a clear view of the various parts of the aircraft. They should not have to rely on warnings from passengers and cabin crew.
Aircraft cockpits should have dangling fluffy balls as a safety measure against disorientation
20 May 2016 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: aircraft safety
A number of aircraft accidents are caused by pilot disorientation regarding the horizon even though they have artificial horizon instruments to tell them their exact orientation. Pilots lose track of up and down and they can even fly upside down through a trick of the inner ear.
I always wondered why this is possible because if you are flying sideways or upside down, should not various loose objects in the cockpit fall and even ending up on the ceiling?
My solution to this is fluffy fur balls in every aircraft cockpit to tell the pilot were they are in addition to the information he gets from his artificial horizon instruments.
Privatizing local bus services could save $5.7 billion
19 May 2016 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, privatisation, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics Tags: privatisation, state owned enterprises
How far can you go with your #Tesla using only their superchargers in USA and Europe?
17 May 2016 Leave a comment
in technological progress, transport economics Tags: electric cars, Tesla
Pierre Desrochers explains why the ‘buy local’ food movement overstates environmental benefits
08 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, industrial organisation, transport economics Tags: food miles
How green art thou? #buswaysforelectriccars not #BuswaysForBuses
06 May 2016 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics Tags: busways, do gooders, electric cars, expressive politics, global warming, trade-offs, transport lobby
Finally have something nice to say about electric cars. They will put bus lanes to good use.
A trivial percentage of people take the bus to work In New Zealand. The government has a target of doubling electric car fleet every year (from 2000 in 2016 to 64,000 in 2021).
This decision yesterday to allow them to use busways allows us to relish in seeing environmentalists feud over which technologies are green enough to have access to priority lanes on the road such as those allocated to buses.
Which is more important? Saving the planet or saving the buses; most of them are diesel? Busways are empty at the weekends and many other times.
Queenstown airport night flights another blow to the @WLGAirport runway extension? @JordNZ
01 May 2016 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: monopoly pricing, natural monopolies, network industries, rate of return regulation
Queenstown airport has been upgraded to allow for night flights and more international flights. Yet another airport to compete for traffic with the Wellington airport and its $300 million runway extension.
Little wonder the New Zealand-based airlines see this extension is no more than gold plating of the Wellington airport where landing fees will go up to cover this over-capitalisation for little return in value. Over-capitalisation or gold plating is a common way of getting around rate of return regulation of monopolies.
German city installs traffic lights in pavements to protect texting pedestrians
28 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, transport economics Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, road safety, smart phones
Public Transportation Ridership: Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back? | @transportblog
19 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: public transport
Recent data showing declining transit ridership is only the latest news to cast doubt on expectations of a public transit renaissance.
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