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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

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • 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