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9781840148787

Changing Trains

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  • ISBN13:

    9781840148787

  • ISBN10:

    1840148780

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-04-01
  • Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
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Summary

The book presents and compares the new relationships between transport authorities and railway companies in a number of countries (Great Britain, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Switzerland and France). It also presents a number of case studies focusing on the role of contracts, competition and tendering and presenting the achievements of the new regimes so far. This book is aimed at all transport professionals, authorities and academics interested in the increasing use of competition in the passenger railway sector.

Author Biography

Gunnar Alexandersson: Stockholm School of Economics Olivier Domenach: Jonction / Universite de la Mediterranee, Aix-en-Provence (CRET-LOG) Staffan Hulten: Stockholm School of Economics Carsten Lehmann: University of Munster (Institute for Transport Sciences) Fumitoshi Mizutani: Kobe University (School of Business Administration) and Hertford College, Oxford (Regulatory Policy Institute) John Preston: University of Oxford (Transport Studies Unit) Amanda Root: University of Oxford (Transport Studies Unit) Pierric Teurnier: Jonction / Universite de la Mediterranee, Aix-en-Provence (CRET-LOG) Didier van de Velde: Erasmus University Rotterdam (Department of Regional, Port and Transport Economics) Peran van Reeven: Erasmus University Rotterdam (Department of Regional, Port and Transport Economics)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction
1(4)
Didier van de Velde
Great Britain
5(74)
John Preston
Amanda Root
Introduction
5(1)
Legal, regulatory and organisational framework
6(21)
The franchising process
27(18)
The experience so far
45(22)
Possible future developments
67(4)
General evaluation and conclusions
71(8)
Sweden
79(64)
Gunnar Alexandersson
Staffan Hulten
Introduction
79(1)
The development of Swedish railway policies and regulations
80(11)
Legal and regulatory framework
91(6)
Current organisation
97(20)
Case study: The county of Jonkoping
117(18)
General evaluation and conclusions
135(8)
Germany
143(48)
Carsten Lehmann
Introduction
143(1)
Legal, regulatory and organisational framework
144(20)
Case studies
164(19)
General evaluation and conclusions
183(8)
Switzerland
191(64)
Didier van de Velde
Introduction
191(1)
Legal and regulatory framework
192(24)
Authorities and railways in Switzerland
216(4)
public transport legislation in the Canton of Bern
220(7)
the Seelinie
227(16)
General evaluation and conclusions
243(12)
Japan
255(52)
Fumitoshi Mizutani
Introduction
255(1)
Legal and regulatory framework
256(7)
Current organisation
263(13)
Analytical framework: competition and ownership
276(6)
Case study: The Osaka Metropolis
282(21)
General evaluation and conclusions
303(4)
France
307(38)
Olivier Domenach
Pierric Teurnier
Introduction
307(1)
Legal and regulatory framework
307(15)
Current organisation
322(14)
The regionalisation experiments
336(7)
General evaluation and conclusions
343(2)
Synthesis and general lessons
345(14)
Didier van de Velde
Peran van Reeven
Competition model chosen
346(2)
Policy choices behind model choice
348(1)
State railway reform process
349(1)
Infrastructure
350(2)
Production inputs
352(2)
Services
354(2)
Experience with competition (a few tentative observations)
356(3)
General lessons
359

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