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Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215002167 Total Pages :299 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (21 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger rail franchising and the future of railway infrastructure by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee
Download or read book Passenger rail franchising and the future of railway infrastructure written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure
Author :Great Britain. Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780101547222 Total Pages :13 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (472 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure by : Great Britain. Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Download or read book Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure written by Great Britain. Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215006530 Total Pages :23 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (65 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure by : Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee
Download or read book Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure
Book Synopsis The Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme by : Richard Brown
Download or read book The Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme written by Richard Brown and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The competition held by the Department for Transport to award a new InterCity West Coast franchise in 2012 was intended to be the first in the most extensive programme of franchising since privatisation. Significant errors were made by the Department during the competition, which not only caused the cancellation of that franchise award at considerable public expense but also called into question the remaining franchising programme. This report is the second of two independent reviews commissioned by the Government, by Richard Brown, the Chairman of Eurostar. It concludes that franchising is a fundamentally sound approach for securing the passenger railway services on which so many people rely. His recommendations include: that the franchising programme should be restarted as soon as possible, but at a pace that both the department and the industry can sustain; that franchise terms should be determined by the circumstances and size of each individual franchise; proposals to strengthen and simplify the bidding and evaluation process for each franchise; proposals for the financial and contractual structure of future franchises, including in relation to risk allocation and capital requirements; and that the government should plan to devolve responsibility for further English franchises to the relevant authorities. Mr Brown also makes recommendations on how to strengthen the department's capability to manage the future franchising programme, echoing the findings of Sam Laidlaw's independent inquiry into the lessons to be learnt from the InterCity West Coast competition. The review also recommends that the Government should determine, by February, plans for the three franchise competitions which were put on hold
Book Synopsis Passenger Rail Franchising by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee
Download or read book Passenger Rail Franchising written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is thirteen years since the Railways Act 1993 started the process of privatising British Rail, replacing it with one company owning and managing the infrastructure, an open-access system for freight services and a series of twenty-five passenger franchises let to private companies for a specified period of time. This period has seen almost continuous change, and there is now a new 'triumvirate' framework with the Department for Transport, the Office of Rail Regulation and Network Rail in place, with the third generation of franchises in the process of being let and the number being reduced to nineteen. The Committee's report examines the current franchising system, focusing on the coherence of its objectives, the effectiveness of the process for awarding franchises and the management of franchise agreements, and whether more competition and vertical integration is needed. Findings include that the current system represents a policy muddle which lacks a coherent framework for the development of good services and delivery of value for money for passengers and taxpayers. The only way the Government can increase capacity and improve services for the long-term is to drop the dogmatic pursuit of competition in its decision-making as to what the private and public sectors can and should do in future. The Government's forthcoming long-term strategy for the railways will need to address these issues, and to set out a structure and a strategy capable of securing quality passenger rail services to meet demand over the next half a century.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :248 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Freight and Passenger Rail by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Download or read book Freight and Passenger Rail written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :European Conference of Ministers of Transport Publisher :OECD Publishing ISBN 13 :9282101630 Total Pages :234 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (821 download)
Book Synopsis Competitive Tendering of Rail Services by : European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Download or read book Competitive Tendering of Rail Services written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines experience to date from around the world in competitively tendering rail services. It seeks to draw lessons for effective design of concessions and regulation from both the successful and less successful cases examined.
Book Synopsis Law and Administration by : Carol Harlow
Download or read book Law and Administration written by Carol Harlow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contextualised study setting out the foundations of administrative law, with discussion of case law and legislation to show practical application.
Book Synopsis The Intercity East Coast Passenger Rail franchise by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book The Intercity East Coast Passenger Rail franchise written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department for Transport took a tough line in negotiating with the owner of the InterCity East Coast franchise, National Express, before terminating the franchise agreement in 2009. The Department avoided disruption to passenger services and protected the taxpayer, securing overall value for money. In awarding the contract to National Express in 2007, the Department had applied lessons learnt from the failure of the previous franchisee, Great North Eastern Railway, and got a good deal. Adequate protections for the taxpayer had been included in the contract if the franchisee got into financial difficulties. The Department did not consider it necessary to stress test bids for deliverability should there be an economic downturn. By January 2009, however, the Department considered that the franchise was at high risk of failure. It refused to renegotiate the terms of the contract and the contract was subsequently terminated. Termination was the best way of protecting the taxpayer. If other franchises, which were seen as at high risk, had sought to renegotiate their contracts, the Department may have had to support them at an estimated cost of £200 million to £450 million. The costs of setting up East Coast, the new publicly owned company to run the franchise, and its eventual return to the private sector are expected to be £15 million. National Express paid the Department of Transport £31 million on the termination of its contract. However, the final cost to the taxpayer will not be clear until the franchise has been re-let in 2012.
Book Synopsis A New Deal for Transport? by : Iain Docherty
Download or read book A New Deal for Transport? written by Iain Docherty and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy. A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation. Firmly rooted in an appreciation of the politics of this controversial field. Experts contribute up-to-the-minute analyses of the key issues. Will inform debate over the future of transport policy. Includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport.
Book Synopsis The British Regulatory State by : Michael Moran
Download or read book The British Regulatory State written by Michael Moran and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-08-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first two thirds of the twentieth century, British government was among the most stable in the advanced industrial world. In the last three decades, the governing arrangements have been in turmoil and the country has been a pioneer in economic reform, and in public sector change. In this book, Michael Moran examines and explains the contrast between these two epochs. What turned Britain into a laboratory of political innovation? Britain became a formal democracy at the start of the twentieth century but the practice of government remained oligarchic. From the 1970s this oligarchy collapsed under the pressure of economic crisis. The British regulatory state is being constructed in its place. Moran challenges the prevailing view that this new state is liberal or decentralizing. Instead he argues that it is a new, threatening kind of interventionist state which is colonizing, dominating, and centralizing hitherto independent domains of civil society. The book is essential reading for all those interested in British political development and in the nature and impact of regulation.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Moving Intercity Passenger Rail Into the Future by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
Download or read book Moving Intercity Passenger Rail Into the Future written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Privatisation of British Rail by : Sean McCartney
Download or read book The Privatisation of British Rail written by Sean McCartney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event. An integrated industry was broken-up into numerous component parts and sold off to private sector interests. The result was a highly fragmented industry that was structurally unsound and operationally dysfunctional. This authoritative volume presents an enlightening portrait of an industry that is less efficient, more costly and still more dependent on state subsidy today than its nationalised predecessor. The nine chapters in this work present a comprehensive and rigorous evaluation of how and why the industry has become so dysfunctional and costly, supported by detailed financial analysis and industry examples. Seven chapters comprise a series of peer-reviewed academic papers by Professor McCartney and Dr Stittle and published in leading international journals over the period 2004–2017 which analyse selected key segments of the privatised industry: where appropriate, updates are provided at the end of these chapters outlining developments since initial publication relevant to the analysis therein. Two chapters are published here for the first time: Chapter 7 reviews the performance of the freight sector, while Chapter 1 ‘bookends’ the volume by providing first, an account of how rail privatisation was conceived and implemented in the 1980s/90s, and then reviews the impact of the pandemic and the proposals of the Williams-Shapps White Paper of 2021 which, if enacted, will effectively end the Major government’s experiment. Going far beyond the usual superficial analysis of the topic, this volume will be of significant interest to researchers and advanced students of accounting, economics, business history, transport studies, as well as industry and specialised business interests in transport and privatisation.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :168 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Future of Intercity Passenger Rail Service and Amtrak by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Download or read book Future of Intercity Passenger Rail Service and Amtrak written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House Of Commons: Committee Of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215091353 Total Pages :21 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis HC 600 - Reform of the Rail Franchising Programme by : Great Britain: Parliament: House Of Commons: Committee Of Public Accounts
Download or read book HC 600 - Reform of the Rail Franchising Programme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House Of Commons: Committee Of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last time we discussed rail franchising was in 2012, in the wake of the collapsed competition for the InterCity West Coast franchise. We are encouraged that, since then, the Department for Transport has strengthened its capability to let franchises, but there are still gaps in its ability to then manage the contracts effectively. The Department's increased focus on the passenger experience is also welcome, but it is unclear when passengers themselves will actually see the benefits. Furthermore, the Department has not yet developed the partnerships with operators that are required to support innovation, improve efficiency and improve services for passengers. Successful rail franchising depends on strong interest from the market and effective competition but there are barriers to entry to the UK market and the possibility that current participants in the market may drop out. Any reduction to the current level of competition is a major risk to securing value for money for the taxpayer. Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the Department is to manage the complex interdependencies between passenger rail franchises, the infrastructure that train services run on and the introduction of new fleets of trains to the network. Uncertainty about infrastructure work has resulted in delays to franchise competitions and the Department will have to rely on potentially expensive changes to franchises during the life of contracts. The Department's role is to provide a strategic lead for the complex rail system but it has not yet shown that it has embraced this role. It needs to provide a coherent strategic vision and stronger leadership to ensure that the investment decisions it makes now do not result in increased costs in the long term.
Book Synopsis British Elections & Parties Review by : Colin Rallings
Download or read book British Elections & Parties Review written by Colin Rallings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing contributions from leading names in British politics, this review continues to publish front-rank research on parties, elections and voting behaviour in Britain.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Economic Affairs Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0104008695 Total Pages :260 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (4 download)
Book Synopsis Government Policy on the Management of Risk by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Economic Affairs
Download or read book Government Policy on the Management of Risk written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Economic Affairs and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government policy on the management of Risk : 5th report of session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Evidence
