Competition in the passenger railway transport in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F14%3A10283055" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/14:10283055 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2014.09.052" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2014.09.052</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2014.09.052" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.retrec.2014.09.052</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Competition in the passenger railway transport in the Czech Republic

Original language description

This paper describes the development of competition in the Czech railway passenger market. The vertical separation of infrastructure and services occurred in 2003. Open access for commercial passenger services is allowed, and it was utilised in 2011 whenthe incumbent on the key rail route Prague-Ostrava was challenged by a new operator; a third operator entered the route at the end of 2012. This resulted in an intensive on-track competition with tariff declines and service improvements. With the exception of the Prague-Ostrava route, the operation of other passenger lines is classified as a public service obligation and is subsidised from public budgets. Long-distance services are organised by the Ministry of Transport, and the usual form of procurement used to be a direct awarding of services to the incumbent. However, this is changing as competitive tendering is being used more frequently. Competitive tendering is also theoretically possible in regional transport, but in 2009, regio

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AH - Economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/TD010063" target="_blank" >TD010063: Optimalization of competition regulatory framework in freight and passenger railway transport in Czech Republic.</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Research in Transportation Economics

ISSN

0739-8859

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

48

Issue of the periodical within the volume

December

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

270-276

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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