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Ex ante evaluation of railway station development projects: Issues still to be solved

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Railway Development

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Governments have traditionally had a major impact on railway systems, at least in so far as the infrastructure is concerned, classical reasons being network externalities and the large fixed costs, including its impact on tariffs that would strongly exceed marginal costs. The latter means that welfare maximising tariffs would lead to losses for the railway operators. Moreover, in several countries rail services have been subsidised for over 40 years in order to increase their competitive status in comparison to the car. Environmental externalities are an additional reason for government involvement: e.g. national, regional and local authorities decide on the ‘best’ route for a new line to be constructed in order to mitigate impacts on the local environment.

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  1. Department of Spatial Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Piet Rietveld

  2. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

    Bert van Wee

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  1. Department of Spatial Economics, Free University of Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Frank Bruinsma , Eric Pels  & Piet Rietveld ,  & 

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Rietveld, P., van Wee, B. (2008). Ex ante evaluation of railway station development projects: Issues still to be solved. In: Bruinsma, F., Pels, E., Rietveld, P., Priemus, H., van Wee, B. (eds) Railway Development. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1972-4_8

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