Assessing the Cost Impact of Competitive Tendering in Rail Infrastructure Maintenance Services: Evidence from the Swedish Reforms (1999 to 2011)
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- ITS-19
- Type
- D - Journal article
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- Title of journal
- Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
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- First page
- 93
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1754-5951
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The question of whether to outsource rail maintenance is pertinent internationally; different railways take different approaches, with varying success/failure. The study applies panel data econometric techniques to a new and unique dataset, to show that opening up the rail maintenance market to competition in Sweden produced substantial cost reductions (circa 11%). Study quoted in an Official Swedish Government Report [p. 152 in “Koll på anläggningen”]. Study presented for the leading party in the Swedish government (Social Democrats; informal meeting, February 2015). The Social Democrats changed its position, dropping their decision to bring maintenance back in-house.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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