Cutting through the confusion around the nature and implications of digitalization, this book explores the rise of the new digital networks, how they affect traditional infrastructure, and how they will eventually need to be regulated. The authors examine how digitalization affects...

Contents: 1. Digitalizing infrastructure: Active management for smarter networks / Juan Montero and Matthias Finger -- 2. Digitalization technologies: The evolution of smart networks / Günter Knieps -- 3. Digitalizing telecommunications: Innovation, complexity and diversity in the internet...

Contents: 1. Railway regulation: A comparative analysis of a diverging reality / Juan Montero and Matthias Finger -- 2. Railway regulation in Germany / Thomas Fetzer -- 3. The ongoing process of liberalization of the railway sector in France / Stéphane de la Rosa -- 4. Developments in rail...

Contents: Introduction / Matthias Finger and Kenneth Button -- Part I: Country and regional reports -- 2. Airline liberalization in the US / James Peoples -- 3. Airline deregulation in Canada and the sustainability of competition / David Gillen and William G. Morrison -- 4. Australia - a...

The European railway sector has gone through profound, yet mostly institutional, changes over the past 20 years, owing mainly to the initiatives of the European Commission. This book constitutes a first systematic account and assessment of the recent transformations of the European railway...

This book concerns the regulation of transport within a European context, covering air, inland waterways, rail, road passenger and freight, urban public transport, and short sea shipping. All these sectors have experienced substantial changes over the past two decades, in terms of ownership,...