restructuring. This history is then applied to the freight railways sector, followed by a discussion of the current state of the …

; Mintzberg, 1982; Alter, 1995, 1996) facing the challenge of openness to competition. We analyse the participative innovation … companies involved in markets opening to competition as in the example of this company. …

South Korea, like many countries, is engaged in a policy debate concerning possible railways reforms. However, unlike … a second train company that would supply on-track competition to KTX trains. While such a policy may indeed lead to … promising reform strategy may be to introduce competition into freight rail. Based on the Latin American experience, creating …

generally to all regions and types of operation. A key focus of this paper is on vertically integrated railways owned by mining …

This paper describes the development of competition in the Czech railway passenger market. The vertical separation of … route at the end of 2012. This resulted in an intensive on-track competition with tariff declines and service improvements …

There might be various aims for the vertical separation in railways such as the one instituted by the European … Commission. One aim might be to improve efficiency, another one might be to introduce competition, as a mean, precisely to … railways undertakings. So a dispute resolution system is necessary. First, this dispute resolution system is costly and thus …

consumers. The regulator designs a mechanism that guarantees financing of the essential input and adequate competition in the …

. In seaports a crucial distinction is often that between intraport and interport competition; in freight railways, between … competition among train operating companies over a monopoly track and competition among vertically integrated railways. In both …One important issue facing reformers considering the restructuring of the seaports and freight railways sectors of a …