Transport And Communications

Transport And Communications 2017, 5(2):41-45 | DOI: 10.26552/tac.C.2017.2.10

Calculation of total costs when ensuring railway passenger transport at the Bratislava to Banská Bystrica line

Zdenka Záhumenská¹, Jozef Gašparík¹, Milan Škorupa¹, Petr Vladimirovich Kurenkov²

¹ Department of Railway Transport, University of Žilina, Žilina, 01026, Slovakia

² Department of transport business, Moscow State Transport University (MIIT), Moscow, 127994, Russia

Nowadays, great emphasis is placed on the quality of services provided in rail passenger transport, which is influenced by several factors. The competition between operators in the public tender when ordering paths in long-distance rail passenger transport is very significant. The aim of this article is to analyse steps of the Slovak government in the announcement of the first public tenders to provide subsidized transport of a selected line and to determine conditions for this tender. During 2015, Slovak Ministry of Transport began to take steps towards the liberalisation of the long-distance domestic rail passenger service on the Bratislava to Banská Bystrica line, which opened up the market for domestic passenger services to a new railway company. The Bratislava to Banská Bystrica line was chosen because of the provision of sufficient transport performance and passenger flows. The liberalisation process of the Bratislava to Banská Bystrica line is still ongoing, and has entered competitive conditions and criteria stage, although the tender had yet to be concluded in 2015.

Keywords: liberalization passenger transport, public tenders, long-distance transport

JEL classification: R40

Published: September 30, 2017  Show citation