The Impact of Separation between Infrastructure Management and Transport Operations on the EU Railway Sector
Study
16-05-2011
This note reviews the experience of vertical separation in the European railway sector. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of vertical separation as well as its economic, operational, safety and user impacts. Different approaches to vertical separation have produced different results, some having a substantial positive impact in terms of the competitive development of the railways, but others less so. This note sets out the results of a comparative analysis, drawing on a range of source material.
Study
Executive summary
External author
Francesco Dionori (Steer Davies Gleave, Dick Dunmore (Steer Davies Gleave), Simon Ellis (Steer Davies Gleave) and Pietro Crovato (Steer Davies Gleave)
About this document
Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- carriage of goods
- carriage of passengers
- common transport policy
- competition
- competition
- economic analysis
- economic analysis
- ECONOMICS
- land transport
- liberalisation of the market
- organisation of transport
- rail network
- rail transport
- TRADE
- trade policy
- TRANSPORT
- transport infrastructure
- transport law
- transport market
- transport policy
- transport regulations
- transport safety
- vertical agreement