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The structure of freight flows in Europe and its implications for EU railway freight policy
Mitusch, Kay; Liedtke, Gernot; Guihery, Laurent; Bälz, … - 2014
We analyse the potential for shifting freight transports to the railways in Western and Central Europe. This potential … only few such freight flows in Europe, and that they are concentrated or connected to the central European population … centers, sometimes called the "Blue Banana". As a consequence, the European railway freight corridors according to EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398469
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The structure of freight flows in Europe and its implications for EU railway freight policy
Mitusch, Kay; Liedtke, Gernot; Guihery, Laurent; Bälz, … - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Karlsruhe … - 2014
We analyse the potential for shifting freight transports to the railways in Western and Central Europe. This potential … only few such freight flows in Europe, and that they are concentrated or connected to the central European population … centers, sometimes called the "Blue Banana". As a consequence, the European railway freight corridors according to EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010981680
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The effectiveness of EC policies to move freight from road to rail : evidence from CEE grain markets
Pittman, Russell W.; Jandová, Monika; Król, Marcin; … - 2019
The European Commission years ago adopted a policy of encouraging the substitution of motor carrier haulage of freight with rail and water carrier haulage, as part of its "green" agenda of reducing fuel consumption, emission of pollutants, carbon intensity, and road congestion. Regarding railway...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137157
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A re-examination of four decades' deregulation effect on competition and productivity of the US freight rail transportation industry
Shin, Seungjae - In: Journal of International Logistics and Trade 22 (2024) 1, pp. 22-38
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to compare the competition and productivity of the US freight rail transportation industry for the past 41 years (1980 ∼ 2020), which consists of the two periods, before and after the abolishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1995....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549645
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Two roads diverged: two alternate strategies for protecting captive freight shippers in the "americas" model of freight rail restructuring
Pittman, Russell W. - 2024
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 -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015073852
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The emissions reduction potential for freight transport on a high-speed rail line along the "European Silk Road"
Arsenev, Aleksandr; Angers, Erica; Holzner, Mario - 2023
This report estimates the CO2 emissions of freight transport on a hypothetical high-speed rail (HSR) line along the northern route, from Lyon to Warsaw, of a 'European Silk Road' (ESR). Using a methodology consisting of predictions regarding the freight-carrying capacity of the future HSR, and...
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Spatiality in freight transport efficiency
Boldizsár, Adrienn; Mészáros, Ferenc; Sipos, Tibor - In: Acta oeconomica : periodical of the Hungarian Academy … 73 (2023) 2, pp. 327-345
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European Integration of Rail Freight Transport
2004
stand to benefit transport policy throughout Europe. …
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Railway Reform : Regulation of Freight Transport Markets
2001
This report examines the form regulation should take in rail freight markets to promote efficiency in railways and the … Europe is reviewed. The need for regulation differs by market and, together with political constraints, this means that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012441341
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Application of underground short-haul freight pipelines to large airports
Shahooei, Sirwan; Farooghi, Ferika; Zahedzahedani, … - In: Journal of air transport management 71 (2018), pp. 64-72
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