At the occasion of the historic date of the full opening of the European rail freight market on 1 January 2007, the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) published a new book. “Competition in Europe’s rail freight market” brings together thirteen academics, top business executives and politicians who give their views on the current challenges of the sector and describe scenarios for the future.
Table of contents:
1. Introduction, CER
2. Overview of rail freight markets – Europe and beyond, Christoph Wolff
Part 1 – The politics of rail freight: regulation, taxation and investment
3. Infrastructure charging – theory and practice, Chris Nash
4. Rail companies and capital markets, James Runde
5. Developing European freight corridors making the Rotterdam-Genoa rail freight corridor a success for the European economy, Karla Peijs
6. Developing European freight corridors with ERTMS - new European political initiatives, Karel Vinck
7. The Development of Russia’s Railways - long-term prospects, Vladimir Yakunin
Part 2 – The business of rail freight: how to serve customers better
8. In the beginning was the road - present and future perspectives for combined transport, Hans-Jörg Bertschi
9. A competitive transport system – priorities for operators, Klaus Kremper
10. Entering new markets – problems and solutions, Antoine Hurel
11. Rail freight – an alignment of opportunity or a victim of external threats?, Graham Smith
12. Rail freight prospects in Central and Eastern Europe, Eva Molnar
Part 3 – Innovation and technology: a business opportunity
13. Technical Requirements and innovations in rail freight, Hans Schabert
14 . Using new business processes and supporting systems to improve quality and increase productivity Eldon Horsman
The book is available at the publisher
Deutscher Verkehrs-Verlag GmbH/Eurailpress
Nordkanalstrasse 36
D-20091 Hamburg
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http://www.eurailpress.com/buecher/buch_ausgabe.php3?id=188
at the price of € 34,- plus postage.
You may download the press release on the launch of the book below in the pdf format.
Wolfgang Tiefensee, German Federal Minister of Transport (second from left) and Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the European
Commission (fourth from left) receive the book from Johannes Ludewig, CER Executive Director and Aad Veenman, CER Chairman
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