, railway technology had a positive impact on human capital training in the cases studied. During the period when railways were …

South Korea, like many countries, is engaged in a policy debate concerning possible railways reforms. However, unlike … increase efficiency but also to raise considerable revenues from the private sector in franchising fees and new investments. …

Railways are usually considered as one of the most important innovations that fostered the transition of Latin America … railways in Latin America. It presents estimates of the direct growth contribution of the railway technology in Argentina … three cases under study (Argentina, Mexico and Brazil) the railways provided huge direct benefits. In Argentina and Mexico …

, railway technology had a positive impact on human capital training in the cases studied. During the period when railways were …

mainly responsible for the diffusion of the Industrial Environment. With the Railways broadly disseminated in space, the … the canals transportation. By contrast, in developing areas such as the Balkans, the gap between pre-industrial and …, however, Railways and Industry provoked novel theoretical conceptions such as calculations of risks relating to technology …

investors supplied railways with external capital that supported their rise to near hegemony over transport in the U.S. This … industry. It did not. Thus by the time the Depression ended, railways were significantly weakened vis a vis their increasingly … successful competitors in highway-based transport. Thus, the decline of American railways was caused more by financial factors …

conditions by operators, slot allocating and pricing schemes and how public service obligations are defined, paid and regulated … issue emerging from the work is the opposing attitude of incumbent railways against liberalisation and the role of decision …