Comparing air service growth in Amsterdam and Brussels, this paper aims to understand how the strategies of airlines and public authorities allow certain medium-sized cities to succeed in exceeding their local market by connecting passengers, while others do not. In contrast to Brussels,...

This paper explores OUIGO (pronounced ‘we go’), the low-cost high-speed rail (HSR) service launched by the French state-owned railways in April 2013. In this exploration, we: (1) compare OUIGO with the traditional French HSR and the low-cost airlines (LCAs), and (2) analyse fares proposed by...

This paper analyses whether the current provision of air services in Europe is impacted by high-speed rail (HSR). An ex-post analysis is carried out considering 161 routes EU-wide using transnational data. We use censored regressions with special attention paid to the presence of outliers in the...

Purpose – This chapter provides a critical discussion of air to rail mode substitution. Environmental impacts, intermodal competition and integration are considered, examining advantages and disadvantages as well as opportunities and constraints.Originality – Both operation and life-cycle...

Brussel staat voor grote uitdagingen op het vlak van mobiliteit en logistiek. Structurele files van en naar Brussel zijn een dagelijks probleem. Het groot aantal pendelaars (meer dan de helft van de verplaatsingen met de wagen in Brussel), het groot aantal studenten (meer dan 80 000) en de...

To date, relatively little is known about the nature of the demand for high-speed rail (HSR) soon after inauguration of the services, despite close to 50-year experience of HSR operation and 17 166 km of HSR network around the world. This is a real lacuna given the scale of HSR construction...

Depuis plus d'une décennie, le transport aérien intra-européen est libéralisé. Les compagnies communautaires se sont ainsi vu offrir une liberté d'accès au marché et peuvent donc organiser leurs réseaux comme bon leur semble. Cependant, il leur faut parallèlement être rentables car...