Regional Railway Transport in Czech, Austrian and German Decentralised and Regionalised Transport Markets1

• Authors: Daniel Seidenglanz , Tomáš Nigrin , Jiří Dujka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article analyses railway transport markets in three neighbouring Central European countries: the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany (specifically Bavaria and Saxony), with a focus on regional transportation. It examines the organisational form of public transport resulting from regionalisation and provides comparative case studies of regional train services in these countries. The article points out the organisational differences in public transportation between the studied regions and tries to connect these results with the supply of regional train services on various types of lines and in different geographical areas.

Keywords

EN

Railway transport; Regionalisation; Decentralisation; Regional train services; Czech Republic; Austria; Germany; R41; R42; R48

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Review of Economic Perspectives
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 431-450

Dates

published

2015-12-01

received

2015-10-14

accepted

2015-11-05

online

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Daniel Seidenglanz

• Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic, tel.: [phone]

author

Tomáš Nigrin

• Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic, tel.: [phone]

author

Jiří Dujka

• Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic, tel.: [phone]

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/revecp-2015-0029