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Financing Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Railway Age
Eichengreen, Barry - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010677769
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The Transportation Revolution in Industrializing Britain: A Survey
Bogart, Dan - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2013
Between 1700 and 1870 Britain's transport sector improved dramatically. This paper surveys the literature on Britain’s transport revolution and examines its contribution to economic growth during the Industrial Revolution. It reviews the important infrastructural and technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155515
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Проблемы интеграции и инновационного развития транспортных систем России и стран Южного Кавказа
Цветков В.А.; Зоидов К.Х.; … - Socionet; Институт проблем рынка РАН - 2012
В работе рассматривается современное состояние транспортных коммуникаций государств Южного Кавказа и перспективы реализации крупных инфраструктурных...
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How to improve trains' circulation
Francesco, Sorace - In: Economia dei Servizi (2009) 3, pp. 437-446
Railways nodes are considered as a combination of heterogeneous elements such as medium-large passenger stations … to promote a new urban mobility. This paper analyzes the critical features of railways existing nodes, looking mainly at … the notion of railways capacity. Railway capacity is a dynamical concept strictly related to railways system's components …
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An Analysis on Transport Nodes Capacity in Italian Railways
Antonio, Basili - In: Economia dei Servizi (2009) 3, pp. 447-464
in transport services (before the advent of railways), in which transport demand was oriented to local territory, to a … growth of cities and the increase of environmental sensitivity) will give an important contribution in order to make railways …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011157603
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Regional rail transport: travelling towards competition?
Simona, Benedettini; Carlo, Stagnaro - In: Mercato Concorrenza Regole (2014) 2, pp. 329-354
A fine 2014 giungeranno a naturale scadenza molti dei "Contratti di Servizio" stipulati dalle Regioni con Trenitalia, operatore "incumbent" per il servizio di trasporto ferroviario passeggeri in Italia, per la fornitura del servizio regionale. I governatori di alcune Regioni hanno annunciato...
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INNOVATIONS AS A FACTOR OF MODERNIZATION OF THE TRANSPORT AND ROAD SYSTEM OF UKRAINE
MYKHAILYCHENKO K. M. - In: ВІСНИК ЕКОНОМІКИ ТРАНСПОРТУ І … (2013) 3, pp. 64-70
The article analyzes the major trends and practical results of implementation innovations in the transport system of Ukraine, identified factors that inhibit processes of innovations in the transport sector, justified the priority areas of government policy to enhance investment in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214803
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Different stages of the positioning of participative innovation (PI) over time. The case of the PI routine at the French National Railway Company (SNCF)
Deslée, Carine - In: International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development 5 (2013) 1, pp. 58-72
Our research focuses on the SNCF company. With 160,000 workers, SNCF is a bureaucratic structure (Weber, 1971; Mintzberg, 1982; Alter, 1995, 1996) facing the challenge of openness to competition. We analyse the participative innovation routine that has deeply changed since the 1990s, whereas a routine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011015138
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Second Best Decision Making of Railway Operators: How to fix Fares, Frequency and Vehicle Size
Rietveld, Piet; Woudenberg, Stefan van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Railway networks are characterised by variations in demand on different links. Optimal strategies therefore call for a differentiated treatment of fares, frequencies and vehicle sizes in various links. However, for several reasons, railway operators may apply uniform levels for these decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256021
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Environmental Effects of Public Transport: On the Gap between Average and Marginal Costs
Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
demand both during the peak and off-peak period. A detailed analysis of capacitymanagement of the Netherlands Railways …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256335