Incumbents and new entrants in European rail freight

Imperfect competition in a network industry: The case of the European rail freight market

“…Nevertheless, some authors have shown that the European rail freight market still lags behind other modes, such as road or air, in terms of competitiveness (Guihery & Laroche, 2013;Bonnafous & Crozet, 2014;Gevaers et al, 2015). The same authors also question the impact that liberalisation and competition have had on market efficiency (Friebel et al, 2010).…”

“…Secondly, while some studies give a broader overview of the market (Beck et al, 2013;Crozet et al, 2014;Gevaers et al, 2015;ECA, 2016;IGR-Rail, 2016), this is mainly to compare the performance of the rail freight industry to other modes of transport. Nevertheless, the level of analysis remains too aggregated to produce insights into the degree of competition.…”

“…This applies to the academic literature, where most analyses are based on comparisons of incumbents' efficiency (De Borger, 1992;Cantos & Maudos, 2001;Friebel et al, 2010), on national approaches (Vierth, 2011;Laisi et al, 2012;Woodburn, 2014) or on aggregate approaches for the European market Gevaers et al, 2015). It also applies to the European Commission, whose market monitoring addresses only the industry level and uses aggregate data.…”

KEP-Verkehre und die Letzte Meile: Anmerkungen zum potentiellen Umgang mit dem Boom der Lieferverkehre im Quartier

“…Um diesen neuen verkehrlichen Problemfeldern mittels spezifischer Maßnahmen zu begegnen, werden in der bisherigen angewandten Forschung vor allem innovative Einzelkonzepte für die Letzte Meile modelliert (z.B. Dell'Amico & Hadjidimitriou, 2012;Gevaers et al, 2014), der Einsatz nachhaltiger Lieferfahrzeuge evaluiert (z.B. Gruber et al, 2014) oder Gesamtkonzepte zur Umsetzung neuer Logistikkonzepte im Kontext von Nachhaltigkeit skizziert (z.B.…”