Incentives to innovations in road and rail maintenance and operations
Worried voices in the Swedish road maintenance and operations industry claim that innovations and technical development has ceased in the last decades. One hypothesis is that it is an effect of the public tendering reform introduced in 1992. Since 2001, the Swedish railroad industry has also introduced public tendering and awarded contracts to private contractors. This study examines the validity of these claims by analyzing the incentives to innovation in the past and at present. The analysis is concluded by proposals how the innovative climate can be improved between the road and rail administrations and their contractors. (A). http://www3.banverket.se/raildokuffe/pdf/MO0102.pdf
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Authors:
- STENBECK, T
- Publication Date: 2004
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 146p
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Serial:
- TRITA-INFRA
- Issue Number: 04-038
- Publisher: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- ISSN: 1651-0216
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Contractors; Contracts; Development; Evaluation; Federal government; Highways; Interviewing; Maintenance; Organizations; Private enterprise; Railroad tracks; Technology; Transportation operations
- ITRD Terms: 146: Contract; 136: Contractor; 9013: Development; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 183: Government (national); 2755: Highway; 9147: Interview; 3847: Maintenance; 1144: Operations (transp network); 9057: Organization (association); 9118: Private; 1062: Railway track; 3855: Technology
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01081578
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
- ISBN: 91-7323-102-9
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Nov 29 2007 12:41PM