Railways in Prague - Tying and Cutting the Gordian Knot

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Railways in Prague - Tying and Cutting the Gordian Knot

KVIZDA, Martin

Základní údaje

Originální název

Railways in Prague - Tying and Cutting the Gordian Knot

Autoři

KVIZDA, Martin (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

1st Edition. London and New York, The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, od s. 186-200, 15 s. Modern History and Economy 1740-1945, 2022

Nakladatel

Routledge

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50201 Economic Theory

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14560/22:00129139

Organizační jednotka

Ekonomicko-správní fakulta

ISBN

978-1-4724-4961-0

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003204749-11

Klíčová slova česky

dopravní politika; konkurence; železnice

Klíčová slova anglicky

transport policy; competition; rails

Štítky

topvydavatel

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 31. 3. 2023 16:37, Mgr. Pavlína Kurková

Anotace

V originále

The early railway lines of the mid-nineteenth century were usually built as private businesses without any aspirations to connect to each other. Competition rather than cooperation was the day-by-day situation, but the networks became denser during the 1860s and 1870s. The overall effect in bigger cities was that the different railway companies had to build stations in the city centre. These results are still visible in metropolises like London or Paris, where stations correspond to former rival railway companies. Passengers needed to cross the busy city centre to reach a railway station of another railway company. As for passenger transport, this does not seem to be convenient as it requires transfers from one station to another throughout the busy city centre. An open market with free competition and no restrictions creates a suboptimal solution: disconnections of particular railways created additional costs for passengers as well as shippers, separated stations used much more valuable land in town centres, transhipments of cars and building of connecting lines increased costs as well as land use. The cities were encountering these costs and difficulties for decades, more or less improving their networks mainly after the merger of railway companies and their nationalisation. The chapter analyses the case study of the Czech city of Prague.

Návaznosti

GA402/08/1438, projekt VaV

Název: Konkurenceschopnost a konkurence v železniční dopravě - možnosti a limity hospodářské politiky

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Konkurenceschopnost a konkurence v železniční dopravě - možnosti a limity hospodářské politiky

Citovat

KVIZDA, Martin. Railways in Prague - Tying and Cutting the Gordian Knot. In Ralf Roth, Paul Van Heesvelde. The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. 1st Edition. London and New York: Routledge, 2022, s. 186-200. Modern History and Economy 1740-1945. ISBN 978-1-4724-4961-0. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003204749-11.

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KVIZDA, Martin. Railways in Prague - Tying and Cutting the Gordian Knot. In Ralf Roth, Paul Van Heesvelde. \textit{The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present}. 1st Edition. London and New York: Routledge, 2022, s.~186-200. Modern History and Economy 1740-1945. ISBN~978-1-4724-4961-0. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003204749-11.

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