Abstract
Market liberalization is a great contemporary trend in many fields of economy. Liberalized transport market, where the transport demand is meeting with transport offer, is evolving dynamically. Private railway passenger operators want to increase their market share together with national railway passenger transport companies therefore the quality of passenger transportation is getting higher, which positively influences the attractiveness of railway passenger transport. The article is focused on these current trends of liberalization in railway passenger transport market. From operational and economical point of view, there are described some ways, how to make the railway passenger transport system more effective and make the entire transport system more attractive for traveling public.
Highlights
Passenger transport is generally considered as an activity, which arises as the consequence of spatial division of places, where people are in exact time and their need to move
Liberalized transport market, where the transport demand is meeting with transport offer, is evolving dynamically
Private railway passenger operators want to increase their market share together with national railway passenger transport companies the quality of passenger transportation is getting higher, which positively influences the attractiveness of railway passenger transport
Summary
Passenger transport is generally considered as an activity, which arises as the consequence of spatial division of places, where people are in exact time and their need to move. Passenger transport is divided into individual and public. Individual passenger transport includes walking, cycling and car transport. Public passenger transport includes railway, road, water, air, city and unconventional transport. From spatial point of view, passenger transport is divided into local, regional and long-haul, which is divided into interregional transport or international transport. From economical point of view, passenger transport is classified into tertiary sphere – services. It means that there are not any material production values, but it is reflected in costs. Primary function of the transport system is providing transport for passengers on regional, national-interregional and international level. Primary function of the transport system is providing transport for passengers on regional, national-interregional and international level. [3]
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