Infrastructure Charges for Freight Trains in Europe

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Coutinho, Sara Branco, Rebelo Lopès
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The track access charges were implemented through the Directive 2011/14/CE with the purpose to regulate the activity between the infrastructure manager and the railway undertakings, since these bodies were required to be independent. This package of legal measures was intended to revitalize the railway sector. However, they lack orientation, which has caused heterogeneity among the charging systems of the countries (amongst the countries’ charging systems) and hinders the development of the international freight railway transport market. In this paper the state of practice of each charging system of twenty-seven European countries for the freight transport segment in 2013 is assessed, in order to find out if they are converging or diverging. The characterization of each charging system is followed by a quality evaluation based on the study of variables and parameters and a quantitative analysis considering several origin-destination points both for the national and international territories. After the assessment of the charging systems was carried out, the discrepancy between the systems became clear, not only because of the high number of different parameters but also the wide range of charge values due for the use of both national and international corridors.
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