Open access for freight railroads : worthwhile or wasteful disruption, final report.

Details

• Creators:
  Gomez-Ibanez, Jose
• Corporate Creators:
  New England University Transportation Center
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Freight service
  • Railroads
  • Infrastructure
  • Railroads--Commuting traffic--United States
  • Railroads and state--Europe
• Publication/ Report Number:
  5249129-01
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Europe ; Australia
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  New England University Transportation Center
• Abstract:
  This study compares the experience of the freight railroads in North America, Europe and ; Australia with required access. Europe and Australia have pursued very different network access ; strategies than the United States and Canada. Both the European Commission (EC) and the ; Australian government have required network operators to open their tracks to independent train ; companies providing many different kinds of services, and the EU has also required the ; incumbent railroads to divide their infrastructure and train operations into separate companies. ; In the United States and Canada, by contrast, the freight railroads remain vertically integrated in ; that each railroad operates most of the trains that travel over its tracks. Only roughly 20 percent ; of the track is open to another railroad and as much as 80 percent of that access is the result of ; voluntary exchanges between railroads rather than government compulsion.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16805/dot_16805_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 120.39 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cfd0e38d5498c3f59fd7f98241ccd44064ce303e2428b4b0edcbd7a62faac17f