There are large differences in both speed and costs between the traffic modes road and air. Rail has not yet successfully offered services “faster than road but cheaper than air”, although there are technical, logistical and economical opportunities for competing with air for...

A critical issue in the effective development and promotion of services is the identification of which service components are most closely related to attitude toward the service provider and repeat purchase behavior. The present study disaggregates a service (passenger rail transportation) into...

Discusses British Rail’s (BR’s) organizational transformation during the 1980s and in particular the position of R.B. Reid, chairman of the British Railways Board (BRB) during that period. As a career railwayman, Reid was an atypical choice to chair the BRB. Considers how Reid brought his...

Evidence of audit committee activity in the formative years of the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad indicates that control and reporting activity developed long before the existence of regulatory mandate or the external auditing function. This is the earliest example of such an organized and...

Recenti disposizioni legislative volte a introdurre forme di liberalizzazione nel settore ferroviario riconoscono l'esistenza di un obbligo di servizio pubblico per quelle tratte non remunerative che in un contesto di mercato non verrebbero più offerte. La normativa nazionale non definisce,...

Arenaways was the first private Italian company to enter the Italian rail passenger market on the route between Turin and Milan. Access to the network was delayed by the network operator (RFI), controlled by the same holding (FS) that controls the incumbent rail service company, Trenitalia. RFI...

Il processo di riforma e liberalizzazione delle ferrovie europee - iniziato con la direttiva europea 440 del 1991 - è ancora in corso e ben lontano dall'essere completato. Questo articolo analizza il modello «stop-and-go» che tale processo ha assunto in Italia, suggerendo che le decisioni...

The paper studies shippers' preferences for road and intermodal rail transport. A stated preference interview was performed on logistics managers of 95 manufacturing firms. A logit choice model is estimated and the relative importance of the main freight service attributes is identified. A...

In this paper, the authors study the main directions of development of transport logistics. Identified as the main types of general transport logistics, as well as the rail sector, in which logistics acquires a dominant role in terms of reform. Also highlights the main features of transport...