Der Deutschen Bahn AG steht zur zeitlichen Entlastung von Fahrgästen neben der Reisedauer mit der Schaffung von Zeitverwendungsmöglichkeiten ein zweiter Gestaltungsparameter zur Verfügung, dessen Existenz darin begründet liegt, dass Reisezeit je nach Zugausstattung und Verhalten von...

In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a particular focus on economies of vertical integration. We test the hypothesis that integrated railways realize economies of scope and, thus, produce railway services with a...

This paper analyzes the performance of the European railway sector in the period of deregulation (1990-2005). Using a stochastic frontier panel data model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity a multiple-output multipleinput distance function model is estimated in order to evaluate the...

Railways transportation is still taken as an account of economic growth without considering the cost of environmental damages. Therefore, it is an urgent need at the national and global level to take into account the sustainability of environment by key sector. So this analysis has contributed...