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Long-term Strucutral Decline of Railways

TOMEŠ, Zdeněk

Basic information

Original name

Long-term Strucutral Decline of Railways

Name in Czech

Dlouhodobý strutkurální pokles železnice

Authors

TOMEŠ, Zdeněk (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

1. vyd. Paris, History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility. CD-ROM, p. 1-14, 14 pp. 2006

Publisher

Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne - Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

50200 5.2 Economics and Business

Country of publisher

France

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14560/06:00020100

Organization unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Keywords in English

railways; competition; transport policy

Tags

International impact
Změněno: 3/6/2008 10:44, Ing. Naďa Voráčová

Abstract

V originále

The paper focuses on the market share decline of railway transport in developed countries. The paper starts with a basic analysis of economic history of railways. The idea of product life-cycle is then applied to interpret a long term economic development of railways. The decline of railways is understood as a period in a structural life-cycle of the industry. The key determinants of the decline are identified as road transport competition, changing patterns of the economy and railways internal inflexibility.

In Czech

Příspěvek se zabývá aplikací teorie životního cyklu odvětví na ekonomickou historii železnice, jsou identifikovány hlavní faktory poklesu odvětví a je oceněna vhodnost politiky revitalizace evropských železnicí.

Links

GA402/04/2128, research and development project
Name: Železniční doprava - institucionální postavení, hospodářská politika a ekonomická teorie
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Railway transport-institutional aspects, economic theory and policy