One important issue facing reformers considering the restructuring of the seaports and freight railways sectors of a developing country is the creation of competition - or, alternatively, avoiding the creation or preservation of monopoly power. In seaports a crucial distinction is often that...

Productivity growth in Australia's railways through the 20th Century was neither smooth nor uniformly positive. It was static or falling for much of the century, before increasing rapidly with dieselisation and the rise of minerals traffic. This paper uses regression analysis to develop an...

This paper examines the usefulness of Coasian Transaction Cost Economics for describing the governance outcomes for semi-public markets, i.e. markets where some government involvement is indispensable, and where the government transacts with private parties, or provides the service in-house....

Railways offer significant potential to provide sustainable transport solutions, particularly for freight. To do this, however, they need to remain competitive with other modes of transport, and this requires productivity growth. The more productive railways can become, the better their...

One of the main problems that hinder the development of railway transport in countries such as Bulgaria is the lack of fully liberalized market. As a result of the review of the Trans-European Transport Network Corridors in 2014, most of the Bulgarian transport strategy documents for the period...

Can industrial policy be effective when dealing with a revolutionary new technology? Mark Casson's recent book, "The World's First Railway System," offers the intriguing claim that a slight dose of central planning by the British government in the 1840s would have produced a dramatically more...

High speed railway (HSR) services sharply improve the accessibility among cities and induce the reformation of intracity economic activities. Using Social Network Analysis (SNA) approach to obtain the HSR network accessibility measures for Chinese cities, including point degree, closeness...