Passenger Rail Franchising – British Experience

Given that virtually all British passenger train services were franchised out over the period 1995 through 1997, and many have now been franchised for a second time, Britain should provide an excellent opportunity for studing the impact of franchising passenger rail services. Moreover, since several different franchising models have been tried, there should also be some useful evidence on how best to go about franchising. In practice, however, the turbulent history of the British rail industry over this period makes drawing firm conclusions difficult. At the start, it appeared that franchising was very successful with strong competition for franchises, rapidly rising traffic, rising productivity and falling subsidies.

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  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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• Authors:
  • Nash, Chris
  • Smith, Andew
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 7-74
• Monograph Title: Competitive Tendering of Rail Services

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Franchises; Passenger transportation; Policy; Productivity; Railroad traffic; Railroad transportation; Subsidies
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Policy; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01080706
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9282101436
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 15 2007 10:32AM