What it "causes" is people being able to travel whenever they need to travel. Peak overcrowding or empty trains at other times are a reflection of people's schedules more than ticket prices.https://twitter.com/uncriticalsimon/status/940618887657414656 …
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Peak pricing is Britain's way of attempting to cope with it. And also their way of trying to fill empty off-peak trains. Rather than America which lets them sit in the sidings.
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We don't do that, though...we run trains according to their timetable regardless of how full they are. If a run is consistently empty they'll adjust the timetable accordingly. Moreover, our intercity trains DO charge more if the trains fill up. Result: chronically empty.
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Is the goal to move lots of people, at their convenience? Or is the goal for all the people rich enough to afford to travel at will to be able to take up three seats?
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Anyway: the country which I was using as an example for charging flat rates is Japan, not the USA. Obviously they get crowded in the peaks--just like they do, despite shenanigans, in the UK. But they're more popular off-peak than in UK too, as far as I know.
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I used America because most of their commuter lines simply don't run off-peak at all.
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For sure, although charging twice as much for rush hour tickets would not change that state of affairs.
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I'd say the real problem of overcrowding is the oversale of tickets, which could be avoided by selling numbered seat tickets, and a fixed number of standing tickets.
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How many people making non-commuting trips are realisatically going to travel at rush hour? It's largely a self-correcting problem, congestion puts casualt travellers off UNLESS they absolutely have to travel then - in which case don't gouge them.
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It's a very similar issue that we see with parking tickets - in theory they're supposed to control behaviour, but in practice they are used predatorily to raise funds for councils. In both cases we see the problems of underfunding and undercapacity at work.
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I've spent enough time sat on the floor like I was Jeremy Corbyn to confirm that yes, the UK does get peak crowding.
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The point of surge pricing, as it were, is to punish people, through a premium, for consuming what is in high demand by other people. Same reason for high water prices during a drought.
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