Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. History of Special Equipment Cars -- II. The Part That Equipment Cars Have Played in the Development of the Country -- III. Financial Relations Between Private-Car Lines and the Railroads -- IV. Contracts Between Private-Car Companies and...

Although huge, Chinese Railways are a bottleneck for economic growth in China. The state-owned enterprise returns a small profit but is severely capacity constrained and burdened with inefficiency. Based on interviews with Chinese experts, benchmarking with railways in the US, Germany, Russia,...

How to protect "captive shippers" from monopolistic abuses by a railway? In an "open access" system, it's straightforward: provide infrastructure access to a competing train operating company. In a system without open access - as in, for example, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil -...