8th seminar 2013

Main Theme: Regulated and unregulated competition on the railway

Aim: Discuss current issues that come with opening up the market of passenger and freight rail transport to competition, focusing at:

• competition on railway and antitrust policy;
• pros and cons of the early years of the open-access in passenger transport;
• the role of railway and competition on it at the regional transport;
• experience with open access in rail freight transport.

Programme:

7th of November

1st Block

• 10:00 - M. Kvizda: Opening of the Seminar
• 10:15 - T. Pospíšil: Economic analysis of Czech railway system
• 10:45 - A. Dolinayová: Effect of change in rail infrastructure charging system in Slovakia on performance of carriers
• 11:15 - I. Drahotský – M. Eisenhammerová – B. Bakešová: The issue of the definition and application of the term "network character of the railway transport"
• 11:45 - J. Mašek – M. Kendra: Experience with the competition in regional passenger rail transport in Slovakia

2nd Block

• 14:00 - M. Marada – J. Chmelík – V. Květoň – K. Mikula: The development of transport relations across the regional borders in the period 2001 - 2011
• 14:30 - M. Horňák – V. Tóth – F. Križan: Current issues of public transport in the Gemer region
• 15:00 - T. Nigrin: Examples of subsidiarity in organizing railway transport in Bavaria and Saxony

3rd Block

• 16:00 - D. Seidenglanz ‐ K. Nedvědová ‐ F. Chvátal: Railway in selected Czech and German metropolitan regions - the meaning of liberalization of railway sector
• 16:30 - Z. Tomeš: Open access in rail passenger transport - a summary of foreign model experiences
• 17:00 - M. Jandová - V. Rederer: Characteristics of transport and economic situation on the Prague -Ostrava line
• 17:30 - J. Hrabáček: Securing railway passenger transport from the perspective of carrier

8th of November

4th Block

• 9:30 - A. Peltrám: The common market and railways
• 10:00 - M. Jandová - T. Paleta: European regulations of railway transport - innovation of the first package and proposal of the fourth railway package
• 11:00 - J. Pohl: Railway on its way from intra-modal competition to extra-modal competition
• 11:30 - J. Gašparík: Restructuring and consolidation of the railway company Cargo Slovakia