La compétition « sur le marché » de la grande vitesse ferroviaire en Italie: une innovation de marché majeure pour un jeu « gagnant-gagnant » ?

Christian Desmaris () and Fabio Croccolo
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Fabio Croccolo: Dirigente Generale - Ufficio per la regolazione dei Servizi Ferroviari - Ministero delle Infrastrutture e Trasporti

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Abstract: The European railway policy continues to promote competitiveness and attractiveness through competition. Italy is a specific case as being the only European country to organize an "open-access" head-off competition on its all high-speed rail (HSR) network between the incumbent public operator and a totally private newcomer. This article examines the reasons why this competition is a major market initiative and highlights the actors' strategies and the early outcomes. Italy reveals that the open access competition in the HSR market is technically feasible and socially desirable on a large scale, mainly because of the positive consequences for passengers. The analysis of the success factors shows the importance of the level of access charges in widening the profitable field of entry. The large public funding of the high-speed network, but also the strategy of the new entrant and the incumbent, play an important part in these results. The pluralities of levers involved, but also their particularity, question their transferability. The results available do not yet give a definitive and indisputable answer to the question of whether or not HSR operators reach a long term economic equilibrium in an open access competition.

Keywords: Rail market; High speed; Open access; Competition; open access; Regulation; Liberalization; Trenitalia; NTV; Italy; Europe; Marché ferroviaire; Grande vitesse; Concurrence sur le marché; Compétition; Régulation; Libéralisation; Italie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-11-30
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Published in Les Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport / Scientific Papers in Transportation, 2018, 74 | 2018, pp.29-59. ⟨10.46298/cst.12177⟩

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DOI: 10.46298/cst.12177

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