Crompton, Gerald W., Jupe, Robert E. (2003) A Lot of Friction at the Interfaces : The Regulation of Britain's Privatised Railway System. Financial Accountability and Management, 19 (4). pp. 397-418. ISSN 0267-4424. (doi:10.1111/1468-0408.00180) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:10408)
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Abstract
This paper examines the regulation of privatised industries, especially the railways. It focuses on the regulation of the infrastructure company, Railtrack, which collapsed into insolvency less than six years after its flotation. It analyses in detail the establishment of a key interface in the railway system, the track access charges, and discusses the extent to which Railtrack's collapse was a failure of regulation. The paper concludes that the key problem was not the regulatory system, but the fundamentally flawed concept of the rail privatisation, and discusses the implications for the success of privatisation and of Railtrack's successor, Network Rail.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1111/1468-0408.00180 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | railway privatisation, access charges, regulation, Railtrack, Network Rail |
Subjects: |
H Social Sciences H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications |
Divisions: | Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Kent Business School (do not use) |
Depositing User: | G.W. Crompton |
Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2008 17:01 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 09:49 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/10408 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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