The path of railway tariffing

Abstract

To argue that railway fare policy in Europe was (and in part still is) the outcome of a path-dependent process implies the necessity to decompose the emergence of that path from its very beginning. Thus, this part of the dissertation provides a reconstruction of the price-setting path in railway passenger transportation in Europe dedicated to shed light on that specific part of railway history. It is an in-depth longitudinal study of passenger rail pricing in Europe, including the interplay of institutional, industry and organisational level.