Open access passenger rail services in Central Europe

Tomeš, Zdeněk; Jandová, Monika

doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2018.10.002

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“…Tomeš and Jandová [15] researched the spatial-organisational features of open access passenger rail services in Central Europe. These open access entries all run on principal domestic railway lines and have caused major increases in train frequencies.…”

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Barriers to Transnational Passenger Rail Services in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina – A Qualitative Perspective

Brezina¹,

Abramović

Šipuš

et al. 2021

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Railway infrastructures and services in the countries of former Yugoslavia have been in a downward spiral since the early 1990s. There have been scattered investments to lift services up to appealing levels after the war, but a continuous downward trend persists in all important performance indicators. After war-attributed abandonment, numerous lines lost services permanently, numbers of services dwindled, especially across borders, and service speeds decreased. This research takes Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina specifically as survey objects. It aims to identify the barriers in these two countries that withheld passenger rail from a positive development as in other European countries during the same period. For this purpose we carried out 11 interviews with stakeholders in various railway-related institutions. The transcripts are analysed qualitatively with thematic analysis to gain an overview of organisational and institutional barriers for development of railways. This is followed by a cause-effect analysis with Causal Loop Diagramming. The result: ad-hoc decision-making is clearly connected to the insignificance of railways. As immediate measures to counter the downward spiral by means of strategic long term planning, we identify (1) service benchmarking, (2) a clear vision for improvement of service quality, and (3) empowerment of ministries in a long term.

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Barriers to Transnational Passenger Rail Services in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina – A Qualitative Perspective

Brezina¹,

Abramović

Šipuš

et al. 2021

PROMET

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“…Regio Jet entered on a route between Prague and Brno (the second largest city in the Czech Republic) with four pairs of connections per day. After a year, connections on this route was expanded to 12 pairs of trains a day, while four of them have a start/destination station in Vienna and eight of them in Bratislava (Tomeš and Jandová 2018).…”

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“…At the end of 2018, Westbahn doubled its offer of connections between Vienna and Salzburg from 15 to 29 pairs of trains a day. At present, there has been a temporary reduction in connections of more than 50%, due to investment of rolling stock and waiting for new ones to be delivered (Tomeš and Jandová 2018).…”

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Competition on the Domestic Rail Passenger Transport Market Under Public Service Obligation in Some Selected European Countries and Slovak Republic

Dolinayová

Černá

Dömény

2021

Sustainable Rail Transport 4

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Sustainable rail transport is an important aim within European transport policy. One way to achieve this is to open-up the rail passenger market to competition. The White paper 2011 of the European Commission (EC) stated that: a competitive and resource efficient transport system presents the need towards opening domestic rail passenger market to competition, including the mandatory award of public service contracts through competitive tendering as a first initiative within the single European transport area. The open access to competition is realised by two different approaches in many European countries; 1) as a public service provision through public tender and 2) on a commercial basis-though open access. Markets for domestic rail passenger services through public tenders have not been opened in many EU countries. The study looks at the rail passenger transport market situation in selected European countries (Austria, Italy, Hungary, Germany, etc.) and places a particular focus on the transport market situation in Slovak Republic. It describes different mechanisms to realise public tenders for the operation of rail passenger transport services under Public Service Obligation (PSO), analysis process of public tenders in the Slovak Republic, quantifies the risk of unsuccessful public tenders and suggest the criteria to achieve successful public tenders for providing rail passenger transport services under PSO.

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“…The determination of the p-level by the χ 2 test of the structure of respondents' answers according to their choice of the degree of agreement with the statement on the Likert scale (according to the list of "disagree", "rather disagree", "neutral", "rather agree", "agree"), shows that the same can be considered the structure of the ratio of passengers of nighttime and daytime trains (p=0.95 and higher) only to the convenience of the schedule and the arrangement of passenger seats [10,11].…”

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Implementation of Innovative Technology for Evaluating High-Speed Rail Passenger Transportation

Kulbovskyi

Bakalinsky

Sorochynska

et al. 2019

EUREKA: Physics and Engineering

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The size and content of consumer value (CV) of the service for the transportation of passengers by the railways of Ukraine in long-distance communication by nighttime and daytime trains is determined. A comparison is made of the results of two approaches to researching the attitude of customers to the service-traditional (point-based) and new, taking into account the specific requirements of the total management of the customer value of the service. The directions of the managerial impact of CV on the passenger transportation in long-distance communication by the railways of Ukraine based on the attitude of customers to the disadvantages and advantages of this service are determined. In three focus groups, discussions were held about travel by Ukrainian railways by daytime and nighttime trains. Based on the results, a list of the disadvantages and advantages that form the consumer value of such a transport service is formed. The list of 19 positive and negative statements reflected all stages of the trip by rail. Behind it, the Likert scale and the corresponding form for conducting an interview were developed. The number of respondents is 823. The sample is random. The results of the polls confidently prove that the prejudiced attitude of passengers towards daytime transportation has been overcome. The ratio of passengers of the railways of Ukraine in daytime transportation in long-distance traffic is better than in nighttime. Only one fifth of those traveling daytime and nighttime are fully satisfied with the level of advantages and disadvantages, which is not enough for most customers to make repeat purchases. However, such a hypothesis needs to be verified in future studies. The feeling of satisfaction among passengers of daytime trains with a positive value of consumer value does not arise in 29 %, which is a threat to the railway operator company. Women are generally worse off on transportation services than men. Reports on research projects

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Open access passenger rail services in Central Europe

Cited by 34 publications

References 13 publications

Barriers to Transnational Passenger Rail Services in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina – A Qualitative Perspective

Barriers to Transnational Passenger Rail Services in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina – A Qualitative Perspective

Competition on the Domestic Rail Passenger Transport Market Under Public Service Obligation in Some Selected European Countries and Slovak Republic

Implementation of Innovative Technology for Evaluating High-Speed Rail Passenger Transportation

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