During 2009, the Swedish Government is proposing to the Parliament that the last remaining monopoly of the national operator SJ – the commercial parts of rail passenger traffic – is removed in a step-wise process 2009-2010. This would introduce the possibility of on-the track competition for...

An important component in the deregulation of the public sector in the European Union is publicprocurement of services and products. This paper studies the bidding behavior of firms participating inpublic tenders of passenger railway services in Sweden. At a later stage in this research, the...

One effect of the regulatory reforms in the transportation sector is that private companiesincreasingly participate in the investments in new transportation systems. These investmentsmay amount to very large sums in the coming 10-year-period. There are several differentways to categorise these...

Since the introduction of mobile telephony in the early fifties in Europe, US and Japan the demand for this service exploded. It seems that the latent demand for mobile telecommunication services for decade's continued to be very strong. Since the introduction of cellular technology the capacity...

The purpose of this paper is to describe Sweden’s recent reforms to open the railway passenger markets to entry, and to addresses four critical issues for the success of the reforms; the allocation of infrastructure capacity, the provision of maintenance and terminal facilities, the access to...

Since the introduction of mobile telephony in the early fifties in Europe, US and Japan the demand for this service exploded. It seems that the latent demand for mobile telecommunication services for decade's continued to be very strong. Since the introduction of cellular technology the capacity...