Abstract
To guarantee fair and nondiscriminatory access to rail networks, European Commission raised the importance of regulation by promoting short run marginal cost. Thus, to recover the full cost of infrastructure, Infrastructure Managers may use mark ups over the marginal cost, using Ramsey pricing for example. However, a Ramsey pricing implementation for rail infrastructure is strongly limited by the lack of information about the demand elasticity of train paths. The aim of this article is to try to fill this gapby conducting an empirical research on the price sensitivity of the railway paths using a French dataset from 2003 to 2016. Preliminary results suggest that track access charges influence negatively the train path demand for high-speed trains and freight trains butdo not seem to influence the train path demand for regional trains under PSO. Nevertheless, if track access charges are related to the track category (UIC category) or to the kind of line (high speed or conventional) results may differ. Regarding regional and freight trains, the track category seems to determine the statistical significance of track access charges elasticity while the kind of line seems to explain the impacts on the demand of rail paths for high-speed trains.
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