Competitive passenger rail can help workers access new or better jobs. This paper studies the wider economic impacts on … of passenger rail on the Ostrava-Prague line motivated the entry of two new private providers. The resulting competition … local unemployment of the liberalized passenger rail between Ostrava, the third-biggest city in the Czech Republic, and …

European air transport policy, emerged through the confluence of case law and legislation, in four broad areas … transport, policy shifted to liberalizing and regulating associated services and in recent years to greening, the external … aviation policy, and safety and security. Inclusion of air transport in the Environmental Trading Scheme of the European Union …

, within an established railway network with every track being profitable, competition on just some tracks can result in a … profitability of the network. Hence, weakening these network effects might be crucial. As a result, efficient intermodal competition … on some routes might cause the abandoning of other routes that are not facing any competition. This effect has to be …

. This work confirms the sensitivity of the long term evaluation of transport policy to assumptions concerning the …

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to compare the competition and productivity of the US freight rail … of a regulatory body in the freight transportation market impacted the productivity of the freight rail transportation … the US freight rail transportation industry using a continuous data set of 41-year financial statements, which is unique …

restructuring. This history is then applied to the freight railways sector, followed by a discussion of the current state of the … economists' treatment of network industries: from cost-of-service regulation through incentive regulation to vertical … debate on rail restructuring - what we term the European versus the American model, or vertical versus horizontal separation …