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Title:

Assessing Railway Infrastructure Pricing in High-Speed Rail: Evolution of Track Access Charging Systems in Europe 2012–2017

Accession Number:

01663324

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The European railway market has undergone a restructuring where infrastructure managers sell capacity to train operators who, in turn, run their trains on the infrastructure manager’s network. Over the past decade, European legislation governing this interface has undergone many changes as have infrastructure charging systems that are implemented on a state level. In this paper the authors discuss how this setup has changed over the past decade, including changes in legislation, alignment with legislation in market structure, competition and regulation, and system implementation on a national level for 34 countries. The authors then perform a quantitative analysis, calculating track access charges for 36 high-speed origin-destination pairs, and evaluate the importance of charges for both infrastructure managers and train operators. Next, the authors examine in detail infrastructure charges within international corridors. The results show that European legislation adopted in 2012 and 2015 is resulting in changes to some infrastructure charging systems. While the majority has remained stable, some have been redesigned from the ground up. Charging levels have seen changes as well, with some increases and some decreases. A number of systems are expected to further change in the coming years. Infrastructure charges remain important to both infrastructure managers and train operators, while existing problems in high-speed international corridors are discussed.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AR010 Standing Committee on Intercity Passenger Rail. Alternate title: Assessing Railway Infrastructure Pricing in High-Speed Rail: Evolution of Track Access Charging Systems in Europe, 2012–2017

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-05727

Language:

English

Authors:

Prodan, Aleksandr
Cunha, Joana
Maciel, Rui
Teixeira, Paulo

Pagination:

14p

Publication Date:

2018

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Geographic Terms:

Europe

Subject Areas:

Economics; Finance; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-05727

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 11:28AM