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Analysis of Railway Infrastructure Charges Fees on the Local Passengers Lines in Croatia

According to the document by the European Commission entitled White Paper, railway transport is the road-map to a Single European Transport Area – towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system, and one of the pillars of future development of transport and traffic in Europe. The document also emphasizes the importance of mobility in passengers transport and highlights the significance of an integrated passenger transport system not only in urban but also rural areas. Railway lines in rural areas are very often referred to as local railway lines. The backbone of an integrated passenger transport system is the railway, which offers some interesting advantages: (1) speed, (2) capacity, and (3) comfort. Except for some passengers services in Croatia, the railway system across the European Union is fully liberalized. In that kind of railway system there are two pillars: (1) infrastructure managers and (2) railway undertakings. Railway undertakings must pay the infrastructure managers charges fees for the train running. Pursuant to the EU directive 2012/34 there are four services that can be provided by infrastructure manager: (1) minimum access package, (2) track access to services facilities, (3) additional services, and (4) ancillary services. On other hand, railway undertaking must at least pay for the minimum access package, while other services depend on the strategy from railway undertakings. The last few years in Croatia have seen a very dynamic change of the fees paid by the railway undertaking to the infrastructure manager in Croatia. In our research we investigate how the principals and amount of fees influence train running service on local passenger lines. The fee amount is the direct expenditure for railway undertaking and directly determines the ultimate ticket fare. We therefore compare the revenue with the cost of minimum access package to establish appropriate sustainable connection both for railway undertaking and for infrastructure manager.

railway infrastructure ; charging system ; integrated passenger transport system ; Croatia

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