Competitive Tendering of Rail Services [electronic resource] /
European Conference of Ministers of Transport.
European Conference of Ministers of Transport.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2007.
Competitive tendering provides a way to introduce competition to railways whilst preserving an integrated network of services. It has been used for freight railways in some countries but is particularly attractive for passenger networks when subsidised services make competition between trains serving the same routes difficult or impossible to organise. This report examines experience to date from around the world in competitively tendering rail services. It seeks to draw lessons for effective design of concessions and regulation from both the successful and less successful cases examined. The work is based on detailed examinations by leading experts of the experience of passenger rail concessions in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.  It also draws on examples of freight rail concessions in Latin America.
At head of title: European Conference of Ministers of Transport.
Also available in French under the title: L'adjudication par appels d'offres des services ferroviaires.
Includes bibliographical references.
Experience with competitive tendering in Germany -- Central and Eastern Europe: a special situation -- Competitive tendering of regional and interregional -- Conclusions: competitive tendering in railways – what can we learn from experience? -- Passenger rail franchising – British experience -- British rail franchising: an experience in choppy seas -- Tendering and decentralization of regional rail passenger services in the Netherlands (1997–2005) -- The pitfalls in competitive tendering: addressing the risks revealed by experience in Australia and Britain.
Competitive tendering provides a way to introduce competition to railways whilst preserving an integrated network of services. It has been used for freight railways in some countries but is particularly attractive for passenger networks when subsidised services make competition between trains serving the same routes difficult or impossible to organise. This report examines experience to date from around the world in competitively tendering rail services. It seeks to draw lessons for effective design of concessions and regulation from both the successful and less successful cases examined. The work is based on detailed examinations by leading experts of the experience of passenger rail concessions in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.  It also draws on examples of freight rail concessions in Latin America.
Railroads.
Railroads