Edited by Matthias Finger, Professor, Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ), Türkiye and Juan Montero, Department of Administrative Law, National University of Distance Education, Spain

‘This book is for those who appreciate the role of railways in transport and in reaching broader public objectives. It is a well-developed and well-written compendium of 14 country-specific rail sector analyses combined with nine topic-oriented discussions covering the tradeoffs between structure, competition objectives, and the scope and powers of regulation. The Handbook does a good job of presenting the experience and near-term prospects of an extremely complex set of issues.’

• Contents:1. Railway Regulation: A comparative analysis of a diverging reality Juan Montero and Matthias Finger2. Railway Regulation in GermanyThomas Fetzer3. The ongoing process of liberalization of the railway sector in FranceStéphane de la Rosa4. Developments in Rail Regulation in Britain Chris Nash and Andrew Smith5. Railway Regulation in Italy Nadia Bert and Germano Guglielmi6. Spain: Between the failure of freight and the success of high speedAlberto Garcia Alvarez7. Railways in SwitzerlandMatthias Finger8. Regulatory challenges of open-access passenger competition in the Czech RepublicZdeněk Tomeš, Martin Kvizda, Monika Jandová and Václav Rederer9. China’s railway development: a cyclical process of de-regulation and re-regulation Linda Tjia Yin-nor10. Railways in South KoreaLeif Karlén11. Indian railways: challenges and opportunitiesRachna Gangwar12. Railways in Japan Fumio Kurosaki13. Rail sector reforms and regulation in RussiaYu.Z. Saakyan14. The deregulation of Turkish railwaysŞahin Ardıyok and Evren Sesli15. Railways and Railways Regulation in the United States: Surely You Don’t Want Jones Back? Russell Pittman16. Towards a new architecture for technical regulation of Europe’s railwaysChristian Chavanel17. Regulating Rail Mass Transit: A century-long legacy and still looking for fine tuning Pierre Messulam18. Competitive tendering for regional trains: What can be learnt from economic literature? Patricia Perennes19. Competition law challenges in domestic rail passenger services Mariarosaria Ganino20. Financing railways Georg Götz and Jan Thomas Schäfer21. The consumer perspective on railways Mark van Hagen22. Competition in the market of rail passenger services: the experience of small and medium-sized new entrants in long-distance services in Europe Rodolfo Ramos23. High-speed rail: From first principles to final expectations Michel Leboeuf24. The digitalization dilemma in the railway industry Juan MonteroIndex

Edited by Matthias Finger, Professor, Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ), Türkiye and Juan Montero, Department of Administrative Law, National University of Distance Education, Spain

‘This book is for those who appreciate the role of railways in transport and in reaching broader public objectives. It is a well-developed and well-written compendium of 14 country-specific rail sector analyses combined with nine topic-oriented discussions covering the tradeoffs between structure, competition objectives, and the scope and powers of regulation. The Handbook does a good job of presenting the experience and near-term prospects of an extremely complex set of issues.’

• Contents:1. Railway Regulation: A comparative analysis of a diverging reality Juan Montero and Matthias Finger2. Railway Regulation in GermanyThomas Fetzer3. The ongoing process of liberalization of the railway sector in FranceStéphane de la Rosa4. Developments in Rail Regulation in Britain Chris Nash and Andrew Smith5. Railway Regulation in Italy Nadia Bert and Germano Guglielmi6. Spain: Between the failure of freight and the success of high speedAlberto Garcia Alvarez7. Railways in SwitzerlandMatthias Finger8. Regulatory challenges of open-access passenger competition in the Czech RepublicZdeněk Tomeš, Martin Kvizda, Monika Jandová and Václav Rederer9. China’s railway development: a cyclical process of de-regulation and re-regulation Linda Tjia Yin-nor10. Railways in South KoreaLeif Karlén11. Indian railways: challenges and opportunitiesRachna Gangwar12. Railways in Japan Fumio Kurosaki13. Rail sector reforms and regulation in RussiaYu.Z. Saakyan14. The deregulation of Turkish railwaysŞahin Ardıyok and Evren Sesli15. Railways and Railways Regulation in the United States: Surely You Don’t Want Jones Back? Russell Pittman16. Towards a new architecture for technical regulation of Europe’s railwaysChristian Chavanel17. Regulating Rail Mass Transit: A century-long legacy and still looking for fine tuning Pierre Messulam18. Competitive tendering for regional trains: What can be learnt from economic literature? Patricia Perennes19. Competition law challenges in domestic rail passenger services Mariarosaria Ganino20. Financing railways Georg Götz and Jan Thomas Schäfer21. The consumer perspective on railways Mark van Hagen22. Competition in the market of rail passenger services: the experience of small and medium-sized new entrants in long-distance services in Europe Rodolfo Ramos23. High-speed rail: From first principles to final expectations Michel Leboeuf24. The digitalization dilemma in the railway industry Juan MonteroIndex

Edited by Matthias Finger, Professor, Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ), Türkiye and Juan Montero, Department of Administrative Law, National University of Distance Education, Spain

‘This book is for those who appreciate the role of railways in transport and in reaching broader public objectives. It is a well-developed and well-written compendium of 14 country-specific rail sector analyses combined with nine topic-oriented discussions covering the tradeoffs between structure, competition objectives, and the scope and powers of regulation. The Handbook does a good job of presenting the experience and near-term prospects of an extremely complex set of issues.’

• Contents:1. Railway Regulation: A comparative analysis of a diverging reality Juan Montero and Matthias Finger2. Railway Regulation in GermanyThomas Fetzer3. The ongoing process of liberalization of the railway sector in FranceStéphane de la Rosa4. Developments in Rail Regulation in Britain Chris Nash and Andrew Smith5. Railway Regulation in Italy Nadia Bert and Germano Guglielmi6. Spain: Between the failure of freight and the success of high speedAlberto Garcia Alvarez7. Railways in SwitzerlandMatthias Finger8. Regulatory challenges of open-access passenger competition in the Czech RepublicZdeněk Tomeš, Martin Kvizda, Monika Jandová and Václav Rederer9. China’s railway development: a cyclical process of de-regulation and re-regulation Linda Tjia Yin-nor10. Railways in South KoreaLeif Karlén11. Indian railways: challenges and opportunitiesRachna Gangwar12. Railways in Japan Fumio Kurosaki13. Rail sector reforms and regulation in RussiaYu.Z. Saakyan14. The deregulation of Turkish railwaysŞahin Ardıyok and Evren Sesli15. Railways and Railways Regulation in the United States: Surely You Don’t Want Jones Back? Russell Pittman16. Towards a new architecture for technical regulation of Europe’s railwaysChristian Chavanel17. Regulating Rail Mass Transit: A century-long legacy and still looking for fine tuning Pierre Messulam18. Competitive tendering for regional trains: What can be learnt from economic literature? Patricia Perennes19. Competition law challenges in domestic rail passenger services Mariarosaria Ganino20. Financing railways Georg Götz and Jan Thomas Schäfer21. The consumer perspective on railways Mark van Hagen22. Competition in the market of rail passenger services: the experience of small and medium-sized new entrants in long-distance services in Europe Rodolfo Ramos23. High-speed rail: From first principles to final expectations Michel Leboeuf24. The digitalization dilemma in the railway industry Juan MonteroIndex