Restructuring the Chinese Freight Railway: Two Scenarios

Twenty years of debate regarding the restructuring of the Chinese freight railway have failed to yield a consensus. Early policy statements favoring the creation of above-the-rail competition over a monopoly infrastructure – the “European” model of rail restructuring – have broadened into a lively p...

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Autores principales:	Shana Cui, Russell Pittman, Jian Zhao
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	L43 L92 O18 P31 R40 Regional economics. Space in economics HT388
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fada5f09edf747a3b92a2192229989692021-12-03T04:01:18ZRestructuring the Chinese Freight Railway: Two Scenarios2667-111510.1016/j.aglobe.2021.100002https://doaj.org/article/fada5f09edf747a3b92a2192229989692021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667111521000025https://doaj.org/toc/2667-1115Twenty years of debate regarding the restructuring of the Chinese freight railway have failed to yield a consensus. Early policy statements favoring the creation of above-the-rail competition over a monopoly infrastructure – the “European” model of rail restructuring – have broadened into a lively policy and scholarly debate that includes as an alternative the division of the system into competing vertically integrated railways – the “Americas” model of restructuring. To date, however, there have been no tangible reform steps beyond organizational restructuring, the construction of new coal railroads, some with private-sector participation, and the introduction of scheduled container service between China and Europe. In this paper we argue in favor of the Americas model as a basis for restructuring and offer two alternative scenarios for the creation of multiple vertically integrated freight railways. Both plans enable competition between independent firms and routes for import/export traffic, one a southern, One Belt, One Road path, the other a northern path via the Trans-Siberian Railway.Shana CuiRussell PittmanJian ZhaoElsevierarticleL43L92O18P31R40Regional economics. Space in economicsHT388ENAsia and the Global Economy, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 100002- (2021)
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description	Twenty years of debate regarding the restructuring of the Chinese freight railway have failed to yield a consensus. Early policy statements favoring the creation of above-the-rail competition over a monopoly infrastructure – the “European” model of rail restructuring – have broadened into a lively policy and scholarly debate that includes as an alternative the division of the system into competing vertically integrated railways – the “Americas” model of restructuring. To date, however, there have been no tangible reform steps beyond organizational restructuring, the construction of new coal railroads, some with private-sector participation, and the introduction of scheduled container service between China and Europe. In this paper we argue in favor of the Americas model as a basis for restructuring and offer two alternative scenarios for the creation of multiple vertically integrated freight railways. Both plans enable competition between independent firms and routes for import/export traffic, one a southern, One Belt, One Road path, the other a northern path via the Trans-Siberian Railway.
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Restructuring the Chinese Freight Railway: Two Scenarios

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