Competitive tendering of rail services.
Contributors: European Conference of Ministers of Transport.
Publisher: ECMT; Distributed by OECD Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9789282101438
Subjects: Railroads.; Railroads -- Passenger traffic.
Other titles: Adjudication par appels d'offres des services ferroviaires.
Description: 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 subsidized services make competition between trains serving the same routes difficult or impossible to organize. 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 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.--Publisher's description.
Notes: 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.

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