英国铁路起初大都由私营公司建造,但1947年《运输法》将其国有化,并由英国铁路公司(British Railways)运营。 2.国有转私有 1994年开始至1997年,英国铁路重新私有化,在该过程中,铁路基础设施、客运、货运分割给独立的组织。1994年至2002年,铁路基础设施部分由私营公司Railtrack拥有和维护。私有化之后的连续事故,如1997...
Louise Haigh says Labour would take funding already set aside by the government to set up a new public sector body named Great British Railways, reforms "which will save the taxpayer potentially billions of pounds per year by the end of five years". ...
Losing share value, public confidence and Government support, Railtrack’s effective existence ended with the transfer of assets to NR, by when Britain’s railways were at a mid-point of a ten-year period which had seen passenger levels increase by 40% and freight by 60%. A private company...
Japan Railways Group, principal rail network of Japan, consisting of 12 corporations created by the privatization of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1987. The first railroad in Japan, built by British engineers, opened in 1872, between Tokyo and Yokohama. After some initia...
This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the ...
Trains in Wiltshire are now running on top of old bottles, food packaging and other unwanted plastics, with the introduction of the first composite railway sleepers on Network Rail’s main line tracks. Made from recycled … Continue reading What does Great British Railways mean for infrastructure...
Network Rail submitted such data to the British railway regulator at the last Periodic Review (2013). Using a cost frontier model, the organisation's business units are analysed to determine the extent of their plans to eliminate internal inefficiencies and response to regulatory incentivesAndrew...
China has the largest rail network in the world.The most amazing thing is that this became a reality within a decade and a half.Even though China was interested in a high-speed rail system in the country as early as 1978,the actual establishment was delayed to some extent.At that time,...
Dynamics in rail infrastructure provision: maintenance and renewal costs in Sweden In this paper, we extend to the literature on marginal wear and tear cost estimation in railways, by applying a panel vector autoregressive model to rail i... K Odolinski,P Wheat 被引量: 0发表: 2016年 加载更...
ICRF sees growth in temperature controlled and time-sensitive medical supplies as its best current opportunity.“One of the few positive outcomes of the recent pandemic has been the opening up of the rail network for fast and frequent delivery services”, said founder and managing director...