Towards a liberalised European rail transport: Analysing and modelling the impact of competition on productive efficiency

Bougna, Emmanuel; Crozet, Yves

doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2016.07.014

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“…Based on the conducted PCA, however, market liberalization and thus market concentration have no serious impact on the international competitiveness, because there is no significant correlation between this second group and the 'Market Concentration' and 'Number of Market players' attributes. However, increasing market efficiency instead of further liberalization might have a positive impact on the international competitiveness of the countries, which supports the findings of Bougna and Crozet (2016) cited in the Introduction. The third group consists of domestic traffic (DT), smallest market player (SMP), number of market players (NMP) and total rail traffic (TRT).…”

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Principal Component Analysis of the Potential for Increased Rail Competitiveness in East-Central Europe

Duleba

Farkas

2019

Sustainability

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Increased rail competitiveness has been the objective of many countries around the world, including member states of the EU. Although railway market liberalization has always been accompanied by high expectations of increased efficiency and competitiveness, the overall impact of such decisions can be considered controversial. This paper aims to contribute to the scientific debate by conducting a factor analysis of some East-Central European countries from the aspect of rail freight competitiveness. Since many highly correlated factors influence competitiveness, its mathematical–statistical representation and analysis is difficult due to the high number of dimensions of the factor space. Moreover, competitiveness cannot be measured directly only as a latent variable which is a feature of Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The introduced PCA, model by way of reducing the number of dimensions, can highlight the relations among the attributes and determine the most crucial issues capable of increasing rail competitiveness in the given countries and also of clustering those national railway markets. Recommendations for structural changes in national rail freight markets of the region are also supplied. Our results show that international rail competitiveness depends rather on market efficiency than on market liberalization due to the fact that the Global Competitiveness Index and Export/Import attributes did not significantly correlate with market concentration. As for the larger domestic rail freight sectors, small freight forwarders—spawned by liberalization—are shown to play a significant role in increasing competitiveness.

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Principal Component Analysis of the Potential for Increased Rail Competitiveness in East-Central Europe

Duleba

Farkas

2019

Sustainability

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“…Third, the railway market is today open to competition [4]. Indeed, with the exception of the UK, today national markets in Europe are mostly covered by the incumbent railway undertaking, which has very strong links with the infrastructure manager in charge of real-time railway traffic management.…”

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Literature Review Toward Decentralized Railway Traffic Management

Marcelli

Pellegrini

2021

IEEE Intell. Transport. Syst. Mag.

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This paper analyses the literature to identify ideas which may be applied to decentralized real-time railway traffic management. This system represents a new way for dealing with railway traffic perturbations in absence of a central decision maker. Specifically, we are interested in identifying techniques that may constitute suitable automatic mechanisms for the emergence of an effective system behaviour. In this literature review, we discuss the possibility of exploiting the existing research works on other transport modes. The analysis of these works makes it clear that real-time railway traffic management is very peculiar. Hence, we consider different approaches: hierarchical self organization, task allocation, reinforcement learning, consensus, auction and coopetition techniques. Some promising possibilities emerge, which we analyse proposing ideas for modelling decentralized real-time railway traffic management.

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“…Using Variant 4, the revenue from railway capacity allocation would have been 0.10% higher than the total direct costs of railway capacity allocation. [7,8,33] products. The aim of the proposed model is for a part of the requests to move from the ad hoc mode to the annual timetable mode.…”

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Calculation Model of Railway Capacity Price in the Czech Republic

Široký

Nachtigall

Gašparík

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PROMET

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This paper presents a pricing model of railway infrastructure capacity allocation functioning as a regulatory measure while fulfilling the regulatory requirements on railway infrastructure capacity allocation. The prices of railway infrastructure capacity allocation will be modelled with regard to all economically justifiable costs of railway infrastructure capacity allocation. The structure of model has been developed as a set of calculation sheets in Microsoft Excel. The recommended prices for railway capacity have been found by simulation of a set of variants and the recommendation is done for different operational conditions in an individual way. It analyses different products offered by the railway infrastructure capacity allocator both in the annual working timetable mode, and in the individual ad hoc mode. The aim of the proposed model is to motivate not only railway undertakings, but also the railway infrastructure capacity allocator to submit requests for railway infrastructure capacity in the annual working timetable mode rather than in the individual ad hoc mode. The total price is then verified to the cost of railway infrastructure capacity allocation. This process then ensures the regulation of the demand of railway undertakings on the given route and can influence the decision about the use of the product offered.

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Towards a liberalised European rail transport: Analysing and modelling the impact of competition on productive efficiency

Cited by 27 publications

References 8 publications

Principal Component Analysis of the Potential for Increased Rail Competitiveness in East-Central Europe

Principal Component Analysis of the Potential for Increased Rail Competitiveness in East-Central Europe

Literature Review Toward Decentralized Railway Traffic Management

Calculation Model of Railway Capacity Price in the Czech Republic

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