The Railway Freightage Organization Study from the Case of China Railway Express

The paper reveals main problems existing in the traditional Chinese railway transportation system and points out directions for its reform by analyzing the case that China Railway Express (CRE) having successfully expanded express business network since its foundation. It holds the opinion that CRE has become the transportation enterprise full of vitality in its true sense in the whole railway system because of its rapid formation of the business network with low cost and the complete control of the whole express service realized by the continuous adjustment of property right relation. Chinese railway must construct the self-operation enterprise with clear responsibility and right, renew the idea for transportation and promote the development of extra value-added business on the basis of further expanding and perfecting basic business to change the industry from “self-service orientation” to “custom- or market-orientation” mode.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

  Secretariat, 14 Avenue Berthelot
  69363 Lyon cedex 07,   France 
• Authors:
  • Rong, Chaohe
  • Dong, Yanhua
• Conference:
  • 10th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Istanbul , Turkey
  • Date: 2004-7-4 to 2004-7-8
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 14p
• Monograph Title: 10th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commodities; Commodity density; Freight traffic; Freight trains; Market structure; Organizations; Railroads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Organizational structure
• Geographic Terms: China
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01084929
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 2008 8:14AM