Deutschland und Großbritannien haben ihre Bahnsektoren Mitte der 1990er Jahre mit zwei unterschiedlichen Modellen privatisiert, liberalisiert und reguliert. Welchen Anteil hatten die Regulierungsregime an dem relativen Mißerfolg der Bahnreformen? Die Studie untersucht die Leistungsfähigkeit...

Many European countries have sought to increase the efficiency of national railroad companies through a range of reforms: separating infrastructure and operations, creating independent regulatory institutions and providing access to the network to third parties. To estimate the effects of...

Railway efficiency is a topic of interest worldwide for railway managers operating in competitive markets and for fiscally strained governments. Several recent studies indicate that European railways differ in terms of their efficiency. Based on a comparison with some major non-European railway...