Conveyor belt or competitive market: What is a railway?

The notion that allowing third party access to the natural monopoly, below-rail track and signalling infrastructure might induce competitive entry in above-rail train operations has been a part of European and Australian rail policy since the early 1990s. However, competition has been slow to emerg...

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Main Author: Wills-Johnson, Nick
Format: Conference Paper
Published: School of Economics and Finance 2007
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Online Access:http://www.cbs.curtin.edu.au/business/research/research-centres/centre-for-research-in-applied-economics-crae
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description The notion that allowing third party access to the natural monopoly, below-rail track and signalling infrastructure might induce competitive entry in above-rail train operations has been a part of European and Australian rail policy since the early 1990s. However, competition has been slow to emerge and it is useful to ask why. This paper examines railways from a number of different perspectives in an attempt to understand the limits of what policymakers might expect from a rail access regime.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-374932017-01-30T14:03:38Z Conveyor belt or competitive market: What is a railway? Wills-Johnson, Nick Railway Regulation The notion that allowing third party access to the natural monopoly, below-rail track and signalling infrastructure might induce competitive entry in above-rail train operations has been a part of European and Australian rail policy since the early 1990s. However, competition has been slow to emerge and it is useful to ask why. This paper examines railways from a number of different perspectives in an attempt to understand the limits of what policymakers might expect from a rail access regime. 2007 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37493 http://www.cbs.curtin.edu.au/business/research/research-centres/centre-for-research-in-applied-economics-crae School of Economics and Finance fulltext
spellingShingle Railway
Regulation
Wills-Johnson, Nick
Conveyor belt or competitive market: What is a railway?
title Conveyor belt or competitive market: What is a railway?
title_full Conveyor belt or competitive market: What is a railway?
title_fullStr Conveyor belt or competitive market: What is a railway?
title_full_unstemmed Conveyor belt or competitive market: What is a railway?
title_short Conveyor belt or competitive market: What is a railway?
title_sort conveyor belt or competitive market: what is a railway?
topic Railway
Regulation
url http://www.cbs.curtin.edu.au/business/research/research-centres/centre-for-research-in-applied-economics-crae
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37493