Railways in Prague - Tying and Cutting the Gordian Knot
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F22%3A00129139" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/22:00129139 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003204749-11" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003204749-11</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003204749-11" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003204749-11</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Railways in Prague - Tying and Cutting the Gordian Knot
Original language description
The early railway lines of the mid-nineteenth century were usually built as private businesses without any aspirations to connect to each other. Competition rather than cooperation was the day-by-day situation, but the networks became denser during the 1860s and 1870s. The overall effect in bigger cities was that the different railway companies had to build stations in the city centre. These results are still visible in metropolises like London or Paris, where stations correspond to former rival railway companies. Passengers needed to cross the busy city centre to reach a railway station of another railway company. As for passenger transport, this does not seem to be convenient as it requires transfers from one station to another throughout the busy city centre. An open market with free competition and no restrictions creates a suboptimal solution: disconnections of particular railways created additional costs for passengers as well as shippers, separated stations used much more valuable land in town centres, transhipments of cars and building of connecting lines increased costs as well as land use. The cities were encountering these costs and difficulties for decades, more or less improving their networks mainly after the merger of railway companies and their nationalisation. The chapter analyses the case study of the Czech city of Prague.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA402%2F08%2F1438" target="_blank" >GA402/08/1438: Competitive advantage and competition within railway transport - chances and limits of economic policy</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
ISBN
9781472449610
Number of pages of the result
15
Pages from-to
186-200
Number of pages of the book
520
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London and New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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