Long-distance rail in Europe: Comparing the forms of head-on competition across Europe

PAŘIL, Vilém. Long-distance rail in Europe: Comparing the forms of head-on competition across Europe. In Antwerp Rail School. 2025.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Long-distance rail in Europe: Comparing the forms of head-on competition across Europe

Autoři

PAŘIL, Vilém

Vydání

Antwerp Rail School, 2025

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Vyžádané přednášky

Obor

20104 Transport engineering

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Antwerp Rail School

Organizační jednotka

Ekonomicko-správní fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Open access competition;Long-distance;passenger rail;Rail fares;Revenue management;Competition in the market;Europe;Liberalisation;Railway regulation;Yield management;Price discrimination

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Anotace

V originále

Europe is finally entering a season of liberalisation in the long-distance rail passenger market, which takes the form of on-track competition among public and private operators. The paper provides a broad-scope comparison of relevant European markets, belonging to liberalised and non-liberalised countries, aiming to point out the patterns in terms of supply, competition model and prices. The paper is based on a sample of heterogeneous 69 city-pairs, analysed in two fourteen days periods in 2019 (May/June and November). All available modes are observed, collecting info on companies, frequency of services, and cheapest price. The analysis starts from a schematisation of different business models, based on literature. Then, using the database, we study the country's supply structure, size, and level of intermodal and intra-modal competition through HHIs. Prices are analysed in two steps: the average prices and the price dispersion, searching for their main determinants, including but not limited to competition. Results show that a higher competition level is not always corresponding to low prices, which are instead determined by many other factors such as size of market, demand, socio-economic characteristics, subsidies, production costs, speed advantage, strength of the incumbent, etc. The competition level, instead, directly influences the quality, the supplied capacity, and the price dispersion.

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Návaznosti

EF16_026/0008430, projekt VaV

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