Summary. The paper deals with the impact the charging railway infrastructure access has on the competitiveness of railway transport in the selected European countries. It researched into the development of indicators that indicate the competition in the railways transport market, such as volume of transport, traffic performances, and number of trains of private railway operators compared with national operators. It used the new approach for research of the share of railway transport in the transport market. The research was based on a comparative analysis of models of charging railway infrastructure, subsidies to rail infrastructure, and development of transport performances of all rail operators. The results of research are presented in terms of freight and passenger railway transport.
An increase in rail freight transport performances is affected by the quality of transport services, which is influenced to the great extent by the transport infrastructure and infrastructure manager services. An increase in the quality of services provided by railway infrastructure has also been achieved through the establishment of the European rail freight corridors. At the same time, the trends in routing of goods flows and demand for transport services have contributed to the establishment of the new European rail freight corridor “Amber”. For this reason, an implementation strategy of the Amber corridor is proposed using the SWOT method and Balanced Score Card method. The draft of strategy is based on the findings contained in the study of transport and market environment of the Amber corridor.
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