Structural Reform in the Russian Railway Sector: from Single Alternatives to Regional Ones

E.B. Kibalov (lf@online.nsk.su ), A.A. Kin (kin_a@ieie.nsc.ru ), S.A. Bykadyrov (byser@ngs.ru ) and I.S. Katunin (iskatunin@mail.ru)

Journal "Region: Economics and Sociology", 2013, vol. 4

Abstract: The paper discusses strategic defects of a concept of the railway transportation reform. We prove that a regional decomposition of the Russian railway network will be a factor of a strategic importance in time. To prove this thesis, we use a cluster analysis of Russian railway traffic flows. We present our arguments for the Trans-Siberian Railway to be classified as a natural monopolist. Theoretical variants of the Russian Railway Company decomposition show that we would benefit at the national level due to competitiveness between natural monopolists on a domestic railway market. A system-oriented analysis of such benefits and those obtained by a united and hierarchically governed railway system would allow making reasonable institutional decisions on how the railway reform could get away from the current institutional trap out

Keywords: Russian railway transportation; reform; natural monopolism; Zipf distribution; Ackoff multidimensional organization; Shapley vector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
Note: Economic Issues in Regional Development
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