Public transport provision requires substantial organisational efforts, careful planning,
financial contributions from the public, and coordination between millions of passengers and …

Transport markets involve interactions between multiple groups of decision-makers, hence
they are good candidates to be analyzed through the prism of game theory. The many …

In recent years, several countries have deregulated passenger railway markets to allow
open access. The aim is for competition to lower fares and increase quality of service …

The scientific and technical infrastructural aspects of substantiating the conditions for the
deeply integrated development of Siberia, the Far East, and the Arctic zone of Russia are …

European country members have been opening up to competition railway passenger
services in recent years, whereas others still remain on the way to liberalization. The recent …

On-rail competition is perhaps the most far-reaching form of deregulation of the railways,
giving travellers several options on a single line. It aims to lower fairs and raise quality of …

In this paper, we establish a generalized cost function for passenger travel based on the
characteristic value of transportation services, and we select high-speed rail, air, and air–rail …

The traffic on a large scale railway corridor is considered, on which cargo freight trains
belonging to independent carrier agents' move. The goal of each agent is to maximize his …

This study presents multiple approaches to examine the liberalization of rail transport in the
European Union. A legislative review highlights the importance of unbundling infrastructure …

Since the beginning of the XXI century, four legislative railway packages have come into
force in the EU. Increasing competition, enhancing the supervision of national authorities …