Does the incumbent have an advantage in open access passenger rail competition? A case study on the Prague–Brno line

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F19%3A00110556" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/19:00110556 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2210970619300137?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2210970619300137?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrtpm.2019.100140" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jrtpm.2019.100140</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does the incumbent have an advantage in open access passenger rail competition? A case study on the Prague–Brno line

Original language description

Open access passenger rail competition in the Czech Republic has developed substantially. From 2011, it has been in operation on the key Prague–Ostrava route. In 2016, open access competition was introduced to another important main line: Prague–Brno. There is substantial evidence regarding the macro impacts on the development of prices, ridership, and market shares. There has been less investigation, however, of the micro impacts of open access entries on the perceptions and behaviour of rail users. In order to explore these effects, we utilized data from a consumer survey organized in November 2017 to analyse travel behaviour. The results show that the customers highly valued the newcomer's services, but they often used the incumbent's services due to its denser timetable. The vast majority of travellers agreed that open access competition has very significantly changed the level of services on this line. The main changes were price decreases and quality increases, especially for the incumbent's trains. The results indicated that the incumbent's services were used more often by older people, people holding loyalty cards, and people on business trips. The results surprisingly indicate that customers seem to have a preference for the newcomer and not for the incumbent.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_026%2F0008430" target="_blank" >EF16_026/0008430: New Mobility - High-Speed Transport Systems and Transport-Related Human Behaviour</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management

ISSN

2210-9706

e-ISSN

2210-9714

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000501596000006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071082258