Opening the tracks: The impact of rail liberalization on ridership growth in the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F25%3A00141182" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/25:00141182 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0739885925000502?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0739885925000502?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101567" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101567</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Opening the tracks: The impact of rail liberalization on ridership growth in the Czech Republic
Original language description
The Czech Republic has carried out dedicated rail liberalization. Two major lines, Prague–Ostrava and Prague–Brno, were opened for on-track competition and entered by private operators. These entries led to fare declines, frequency increases, and quality improvements. Ridership increased significantly, but it has not been clear what part of the ridership growth has been caused by competition and what part by other factors. We used data about Czech rail ridership that consists of 12 long-distance connections from Prague to regional centres. Four were routes with competition and eight were routes operated solely by the incumbent. This design enables differentiation of what part of the ridership increases was caused by competition and what part by other factors. The main result is that after controlling for economic growth and travel-time improvements, ridership on lines with competition grew by 5 % p.a. more than it did on lines without competition.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20104 - Transport engineering
Result continuities
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)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Research in Transportation Economics
ISSN
0739-8859
e-ISSN
1875-7979
Volume of the periodical
111
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
1-9
UT code for WoS article
001498045100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105005371597