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Reforming railways in the EU: An empirical assessment of liberalisation policies in the European rail freight market

par Esposito, Giovanni ;Cicatiello, Lorenzo;Ercolano, Salvatore
Référence Transportation research. Part A, Policy and practice, 132, page (606-613)
Publication Publié, 2020-02-01

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Over the last decades, the rail sector has seen considerable reform in the European Union (EU). The overreaching goal has been to revitalise this sector and to make it more competitive to attract traffic from firms operating in other transport markets. By retrieving information from the OECD’s ETCR database, this paper focuses on the rail freight service market and answers the following research question: have liberalisation reform policies increased the market share of rail freight services in the EU? By contributing to the existing literature on the empirical assessment of liberalisation policies in the EU, our findings indicate a positive impact of liberalisation on the market shares of rail freight services. Nevertheless, the paper suggests that merely relying on these policies to sustain the economic growth of rail-freight firms might not suffice alone and that might be important to combine them with other policy solutions such as more environmental-friendly regulations.