Publicly-owned operators can also challenge incumbents. New cases of open-access passenger rail competition in Poland

Król, Marcin; Taczanowski, Jakub; Jarecki, Stefan Akira; Kołoś, Arkadiusz

doi:10.1016/j.jrtpm.2019.100150

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“…The experience ended not only because of the incumbent’s pressures (Król, 2017) but also because of PR industrial and network choices (Król et al, 2018). Król et al (2019), instead, discuss the post-PR phase, when a number of small and mostly public companies, try to find some place on market niches providing low-performance and low-cost (25–40% cheaper) services.…”

Section: Open-access Competition In Europe and Focus On Pricesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Difference-In-Difference Approach to Estimate the Price Effect of Market Entry in High-Speed Rail

Beria

Tolentino

Shtele

et al. 2022

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries

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The effect of competition on prices in the passenger transport sector can be difficult to estimate because of many influencing factors such as state regulation, demand, seasonality, and reactions of indirect competitors. A case of great interest in the rail sector is Italy, where on-track competition in the high-speed segment has been in place for nearly ten years. The paper aims at answering the question whether—and how much—incumbent’s prices are affected when competition starts on a route previously in monopoly. The case is the start of operations on the Turin–Milan–Venice route, where Italo entered in May 2018. Adopting a difference-in-difference approach, we check if Trenitalia changed the price strategy on the route before and after the entry, with respect to two control groups. The addition of placebo tests allows us to understand the ranges of significance of the results and to estimate the noise level of the estimates. Our findings suggest that the start of competition led to lower prices in the short-medium period. In the specific case, the Milano–Venezia route saw Trenitalia’s prices reduced by 21–26% (±2–5%) in a time span of 84–140 days after Italo’s entry and for advanced bookings from 2 to 10 days. Last-day prices remain unchanged, while early bookings are reduced by just 9%. This price reduction does not remain stable in the longer term, when other effects add up and blur the effect of the entry. Nevertheless, we keep observing a smaller, ∼15%, but still negative prices change.

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Section: Open-access Competition In Europe and Focus On Pricesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Difference-In-Difference Approach to Estimate the Price Effect of Market Entry in High-Speed Rail

Beria

Tolentino

Shtele

et al. 2022

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries

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“…In Poland almost all entries to the long-distance commercial market in Poland (including the Interregio case) were made from another market segment (regional public services). Interestingly, by publicly-owned operators (Król et al 2019).…”

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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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“…Authors did not find scientific papers comparing the rail infrastructure charges in V4 countries (expect [27]). This issue is mentioned marginally in scientific papers dealing with the rail competition, for example in [28][29][30]. There are very few articles that compare the rail infrastructure charges for certain transportation in several countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

Single European Railway Area and the Problem of Rail Infrastructure Charges - Case Studies in V4 Countries

Dolinayová¹,

Dömény²,

Jansák³

et al. 2021

Komunikácie

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This paper deals with the charging system and rail infrastructure fees use in V4 countries. The goal was to find out how the charges differ in terms of the train type, weight and distance traveled on different track categories. The charging principle for minimum access packages and for the access and services supplied in service facilities was investigated. Due to different technical, technological and other conditions for the rail infrastructure capacity utilization, the modeled situation was compared to the real one. This research shows differences between individual countries, both in the charging system and in the price for the rail infrastructure use (the prices were recalculated to € and in the PPP-purchasing power parity). It is interesting that the differences are not only significant with regard to the category of track used and the train's weight (especially in the freight transport), but with regard to other factors, as well, in particular the type of train and price for the use of railway stations.

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Publicly-owned operators can also challenge incumbents. New cases of open-access passenger rail competition in Poland

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

A Difference-In-Difference Approach to Estimate the Price Effect of Market Entry in High-Speed Rail

A Difference-In-Difference Approach to Estimate the Price Effect of Market Entry in High-Speed Rail

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

Single European Railway Area and the Problem of Rail Infrastructure Charges - Case Studies in V4 Countries

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