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Flexible ticket pricing likely as workers stop their daily commute
6th July 2020
This is an example of how coronavirus may have changed the way the labour market operates and affected consumer tastes too.
A fall in demand for commuting, amid a more general fall in the demand for public transport is going to mean lower demand, which itself begs interesting questions about the extent to which the government is going to have to support the sector, and ask for innovative responses to pricing.
In this case, a fall in Monday to Friday commuting is likely to encourage firms to offer more flexible season tickets and so on - although, you might argue that the structure of the market to some extent mitigates against this, in that train operating companies face no direct competition. It will be fascinating to see how they respond.
Flexible rail tickets urged as workers stop daily commute | @scoopit https://t.co/mM8G9aGEO0 #coronavirus #transport #publictransport #commuting #consumertastes #pricing #D&S #seasontickets
— Graham Watson (@1973GJWEcon) July 3, 2020
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