This paper analyzes the performance of the European railway sector in the period of deregulation (1990-2005). Using a stochastic frontier panel data model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity a multiple-output multipleinput distance function model is estimated in order to evaluate the...

Railways offer significant potential to provide sustainable transport solutions, particularly for freight. To do this, however, they need to remain competitive with other modes of transport, and this requires productivity growth. The more productive railways can become, the better their...

This paper utilises a unique dataset comprising of a hundred years of Australian railway history to develop a cost function for Australia's railways. It explores two different functional forms, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each, and explores some of the ramifications of the...

The Australian Railways Business and Economics Conference was held in Perth, Australia, on July 20th 2009, bringing together 30 participants from industry, government and academia. The conference heard from six presenters: Paul Larsen – General Manager, Westnet Rail; Professor Tim Brennan –...

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...

The paper focuses on evaluation of the few turn around strategies available with the Indian Railways to improve its operating ratio. The strategies examined are (a) choice of electric traction and the pace of electrification (b) improvement of utilization of network capacity (c) bench marking of...

This work estimates the impact of the 2018 French national railway strike (April to June) on the inter-city ridesharing usage and user welfare. We collected daily trip-level data from the API of BlaBlaCar, the largest inter-city ridesharing platform in Europe, and show that on an average strike...

We study changes in job reallocation in Europe after 2000 using novel microaggregated data that we collected for 19 European countries. In all countries, we document broad-based declines in job reallocation rates that concern most economic sectors and size classes. These declines are mainly...