This paper discusses a range of business model innovations taking place out-side the rail transport sector with a direct impact on rail transport. The paper also discusses business model innovations that may have been developed elsewhere but could be transferred to the rail transport sector. The...

The paper asks how the modal shift from road to rail in the freight sector is sup-ported by institutional change. Following North (1990), institutions are understood as the "rules of the game" in the rail freight sector. Based on the literature on institutional change, four different...

CO2-emissions from traffic - increasingly from freight transport - are growing, especially in the highly developed industrialized countries. The answers to this environmentally problematical development are technical ones mainly: Administrators and scientists try to improve engines,...