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NR’s method for allocating fixed costs: a threat to freight

Philippa Edmunds Freight on Rail manager
24 November 2017
 

The Campaign for Better Transport believes it is inappropriate to allocate fixed costs to specific types of rail traffic (‘Northern & freight shoulder bigger share of NR fixed costs’ LTT09 Nov). 

By allocating costs to sectors it infers that those costs would be eliminated if the traffic disappears, yet in reality the costs are fixed and would simply pass to another sector.  This gives a false indication of the true costs of particular types of traffic. Even though...

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