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An analysis of the railway access charges regime in the Italian context

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  • Rotoli, Francesco
  • Valeri, Eva
  • Ricci, Stefano
  • Rizzetto, Luca
  • Malavasi, Gabriele

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An appropriate access charges regime represents the basis for implementing an open market and for guaranteeing fair competition in the rail sector. In accordance with the recent European and national legislations, the Italian rail infrastructure manager has lately presented a new charges scheme with a better cost orientation and a deeper market segmentation based on the ability to pay. This paper describes and compares the new and the previous regimes, presenting a case study on selected Italian corridors. Interesting insights are added by applying a data envelopment analysis to rank the efficiency of the rail segments considering the different standpoints of three stakeholders: infrastructure manager, rail operators and rail regulator.

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  • Rotoli, Francesco & Valeri, Eva & Ricci, Stefano & Rizzetto, Luca & Malavasi, Gabriele, 2018. "An analysis of the railway access charges regime in the Italian context," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 20-28.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:trapol:v:64:y:2018:i:c:p:20-28
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.01.006
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