Off-peak pricing is normally around half as much as on-peak, but peak pricing can be as much as 10 times higher than off-peak in some parts of the country.
Put us on the path to the right kind of "peak oil" -- and peak carbon -- the peak that comes, not because we find less and less, but because we want less and less.
However, the real money saver is you can get peak and off-peak carnets to mix and match your tickets.
If you go home regularly on the train after 7pm it will save you a considerable amount of money if you get a peak-fare carnet for the morning and an off-peak one for the evening.
If traffic congestion can be compared to water flowing through a sink drain, then a congestion toll is like the handle on the spigot -- it increases during times of peak road use, decreases during off-peak times, and is adjusted in real time to keep traffic flowing smoothly.
Rising above the Peak Tram terminus is the seven-storey Peak Tower, an anvil-shaped building containing shops, restaurants, tourist items and a viewing terrace.
As a result, Mr Parry finds, the net benefits of a road-specific peak-period fee (the gain of less congestion minus the cost of disrupted travel) would be about three times bigger than a petrol-tax increase calculated to curb congestion by the same amount.
Peak oil may already be with us, and peak coal in 10-15 years, while peak lithium remains a subject of speculation.
What will it take for us to realise that the doom-mongers and peak-oil theorists are wrong, and that we live in an era of energy abundance?
Andy Rothman , the China Macro Strategist for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, believes that China is near the peak in food-price inflation and close to the peak in the overall rise in the Consumer Price Index for this cycle.
So, in theory off-peak fares could increase but peak fares could potentially decrease.
At the moment some peak time services have empty seats on them while the first off-peak train is extremely over-crowded as passengers wait for the cheaper fares.
It was one of Australia most heavily glaciated areas, and includes Mt Ossa (1, 617m) - Tasmania's highest peak - and Lake St Clair, Australia's deepest natural freshwater lake (167m).
Only about 20% of that capacity is generally available during peak demand periods (about 5:00pm), while average generation during off-peak time averages about 40% of capacity.
Furthermore, we believe the DVD (and broader optical disk) category has already entered a long-term decline (analogous with peak-to-trough decline of VHS and CD categories), caused by rapid growth in on-line streaming and a la carte rentals (though we admit that UV has been a bit of a disappointment, so far).
This would be a mistake, for unless consumers see fluctuations in prices (especially at peak times), they have no incentive to conserve power or shift their use off-peak.
Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.
The important comparator is this: 18 months ago, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was forecasting that public sector net debt would reach its peak a year earlier, in 2014-15, and it thought that peak would be considerably lower - 70.9% of GDP (87.2% on the eurozone's basis).
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But many I've spoken to fear that off-peak prices may increase without a corresponding reduction in peak fares.
After the last profit-share peak in the mid-1960s, the corporate sector suffered a long and dismal decline.
Anything to goose the perilously low occupancy rates--50% at the Indian hotels, when the peak-season rate is 80% to 90%.
While each fiber eventually suffers a painful drop-off, the next one hits an even higher peak--making a growth business out of a series of declining ones.
So, what you'll see in first-quarter results is a catch-up to what now the future of market is doing, viewing the peak-to-trough home prices to be 37%.
As it happens, the Bank's latest forecasts show the UK economy getting back to its pre-recession peak in roughly two years - in 2014.
Plus, this ratio sits just five percentage points from a 12-month peak, implying that short-term speculators have rarely been more put-heavy during the past year.
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