Canberra Airport - Rego ACT - ACT Government

More documents

Recommendations

Info

3. How Many Taxi Licences Do We Need If the Government wishes to answer this question, the first thing it must acknowledge and put at the top of its requirements and key factors list is that Canberra is a city that exists to fulfil its role as the National Capital. As a consequence, it has a significant role in servicing the Australian Government and it must operate in such a way that facilitates the conduct of Government business and meet the needs of those engaging in business with the Government. In short, as a result of being the National Capital, Canberra has a significantly higher requirement for numbers of taxis operating on the road than other cities, due to the high level of government business and business travel. The extent of this is underlined by comparing the population of various capital cities in Australia to the number of airline passengers that travel to that city, noting of course that in Canberra there is a higher proportion of business travellers (who have a greater requirement for taxis) than for leisure passengers. Table 3.1 - Airport Passengers Numbers Vs Population Population Airport Passengers Airport PAX Per Head Of Population Wellington NZ+ 478,600 5,374,000 11.23 Brisbane 1,950,000 18,711,039 9.60 Canberra 345,600 3,149,166 9.11 Hobart 213,000 1,874,437 8.80 Sydney 4,400,000 32,993,572 7.50 Melbourne 3,900,000 24,882,230 6.38 Perth 1,600,000 9,612,102 6.01 Adelaide 1,170,000 6,841,747 5.85 ~ Data as provided in ACT Government discussion paper (Aug 2009) + Taxi plates estimate only. Population data for Wellington region from Statistics NZ * Pax numbers from BITRE data available online (calendar year 2009) The above table indicates that Canberra has one of the highest ratios of airline passengers to city population. This in itself means that in Canberra there is a much higher requirement for taxis than other cities as many of those airline passengers will require taxi services. As such, when examining the ratio of taxi plates to population in cities, one has to keep in mind that Canberra needs more taxi plates for its population (on a proportionate basis) than cities such as Perth and Adelaide and substantially more than Melbourne and Sydney (which also have a highly functional and available public transport system) simply because proportionately it has a greater number of airline passengers. Accordingly, an appropriate metric (amongst others) to examine the question of taxis appropriate for a market is the number of airport passengers per taxi plate:
Table 3.2 - Taxis Vs Airport Passenger Numbers Taxis Airport Passengers Airport PAX Per Taxi Brisbane 1,867 18,711,039 10,022 Canberra 333 3,149,166 9,457 Hobart 261 1,874,437 7,182 Adelaide 1,039 6,841,747 6,585 Sydney 5,210 32,993,572 6,333 CBR Option 1 500 3,149,166 6,298 Melbourne 4,020 24,882,230 6,190 CBR Option 2 600 3,149,166 5,249 Perth 1,849 9,612,102 5,199 Wellington NZ+ 1,970 5,374,000 2,728 ~ Taxi data as provided in ACT Government discussion paper (Aug 2009) + Based on year end Mar 09 passenger numbers. Taxi plates estimate only * Pax numbers from BITRE data available online (calendar year 2009) As the above table shows if Canberra had in the order of 500 taxi plates, we would have a ratio of taxis to passengers approximately equal to Sydney and Melbourne, yet they have significant public transport infrastructure. At 600 taxi plates, we would still have a poorer ratio than Perth, notwithstanding our significantly greater business travel and weaker public transport system. This analysis shows that at a minimum – to just to meet the standards of other cities - Canberra requires 500 to 600 taxis (noting that we would then still then have a service substantially less than that provided at Wellington). The question is of how to get there and this includes issues of transition, reducing the cost of Government charges and improving the training and structure of the industry. It is our recommendation, as indicated below, that whilst a cap is removed on the total number of overall taxi licences, that the number of licences to be issued be restricted to a certain number of licences per annum for the next 5 to 10 years as a method of incrementally moving to market equilibrium and allowing the industry to adjust.
Page 1 and 2: ACT Taxi Industry Review Canberra A
Page 3 and 4: this situation is rectified, there
Page 5: 2. Should There Be A Cap On The Num
Page 9 and 10: in the issuance of additional licen
Page 11 and 12: 6. Licence Fee In order to improve
Page 13 and 14: 8. Fare - Commercial Viability And
Page 15: 2 | Canberra Airport 2009 Environme

Canberra Airport - Rego ACT - ACT Government

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?