TRANSPORT ECONOMICS – Costs and Revenues
In economics it is important to understand the costs and revenues of firms. This will give an important insight into the behaviour of firms. Basic / traditional economic considers that the sole purpose of firms is to maximise profits. This goal then leads firms to minimise costs and maximise profits.
Transport firms are no different. In the UK we have many types of firms
* Rail * Network Rail is responsible for rail infrastructure * Train operators responsible for ultimate service to customers (owners of franchises) * ROSCO – owners of rolling stock who lease these to the operators * Infrastructure and maintenance and renewal companies * Channel
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Price per unit
(average revenue) | Quantity Demanded
(Qd) | Total Revenue
(TR) | Marginal Revenue
(MR) | £s | units | £s | £s | 400 | 220 | 88000 | | 370 | 340 | 125800 | 315 | 340 | 460 | 156400 | 255 | 310 | 580 | 179800 | 195 | 280 | 700 | 196000 | 135 | 250 | 820 | 205000 | 75 | 220 | 940 | 206800 | 15 | 190 | 1060 | 201400 | -45 |
Average and marginal revenue – the important relationshipsIn our example in the table above, as price per unit falls, demand expands and so too does total revenue, although because the demand curve is downward sloping, the average revenue falls as more units are sold. This causes marginal revenue to decline. Eventually once marginal revenue becomes negative, a further fall in price (e.g. from £220 to £190) causes total revenue to fall.Because the price per unit is declining, total revenue is rising at a decreasing rate and will eventually reach a maximum (see the next paragraph).Elasticity of demand and total revenueWhen a firm faces a perfectly elastic demand curve, then average revenue = marginal revenue (i.e. extra units of output can all be sold at the ruling market price). However, most businesses face a downward sloping demand curve! And because the price per unit must be cut to sell extra units, therefore MR lies below AR. In fact he MR
Demand may be price inelastic - Demand is not very responsive to changes in price. This means revenue will fall.
This graph is specific to an oligopoly and shows the change in quantity demanded in relation to the change in price for both elastic and inelastic goods. Total Revenues will be increased, if the firm decreases their price but increase their quantity. Due to the fact that the costs remain the same, the revenue line on the graph can be seen to be steeper than the costs meaning that the profit is higher. The graph therefore also indicates the point where the firm is able to make the most amount of profit, in relation to the price they set and the quantity they produce.
at total revenue and price elasticity of demand are closely related. (McConnell, Brue, Flynn, 2012)
Throughout this task I will do my best to explain how firms determined to maximize profit do just that. Specifically I will delineate how such firms choose the optimum level of production or output for the goods they produce and how they behave with respect to various elevations of marginal revenue. In my attempt it will be appropriate for me to clarify the definitions of various economic terms in order to assure a proper understanding of my thoughts on this topic, I will provide these definitions throughout.
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When the elasticity of demand is elastic, the change in quantity will be greater that the change in price. Hence, the total revenue will reduce with increasing prices and increase as prices decrease. However, if the business offers goods or services with inelastic price elasticity of demand, then the change in quantity demanded will be smaller than the change in price. Consequently, the total revenue, which is a product of the two will increase when
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A set of graphs shows the relationship between demand and total revenue (TR) for a linear demand curve. As price decreases in the elastic range, TR increases, but in the inelastic range, TR decreases. TR is maximized at the quantity where PED = 1.
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