IPART is conducting an end of term review of State Water Corporation's Operating Licence. IPART is seeking submissions on the draft operating licence, reporting manual and cost benefit analysis for this review.
The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) is seeking comments on its draft report and draft determination on maximum Opal fares for 2020-2024.
Ticketing technology is evolving and the NSW Government recently introduced a new account based ticketing product for public transport called Opal Connect.
One of our objectives for the review is to ensure that public transport fares are affordable. We make a number of recommendations to the NSW Government to improve the affordability of public transport fares.
On-demand buses are a new initiative for the NSW Government and allow passengers to book transport by bus from their home or a nearby collection point to a local transport hub or community centre.
We have considered both the underlying growth in demand for public transport services and the response to changes in the price of public transport in our modelling of public transport fares.
When people use public transport, they generate benefits for and impose costs on others. The main external benefit of a person taking public transport instead of driving is the avoided cost of congestion on roads.
Public transport is provide more efficiently when the NSW Government either spends less for a given set of services or provides more public transport services for a given cost.
In some parts of the world public transport is free to use and is fully funded by the community through taxation revenue. We investigate the potential outcomes if public transport fares were free in Sydney.
This Fact Sheet is a summary of Catherine Hill Bay Water Utility’s application to vary its network operator’s licence under the Water Industry Competition Act 2006 (NSW).
