Competitive Tendering of Rail Passenger Services: Experience to Date
ECMT Workshop, Paris, 12 January 2006

• Programme

• Passenger Rail Franchising: British Experience
  Chris NASH, Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds University, UK

• British Rail Franchising: Experiences in Choppy Seas
  Tom WINSOR, White & Case, London, UK

• Pitfalls in Competitive Tendering
  Peter KAIN, Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics, Canberra Australia

• Tendering and Decentralization of Regional Rail Passenger Services in the Netherlands
  Hans VAN DIJK, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, The Hague, Netherlands

• Experience with Competitive Tendering in Germany
  Andreas BRENCK, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

• Competitive Tendering of Regional and Interregional Rail Services in Sweden
  Gunnar ALEXANDERSSON, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

• Central and Eastern Europe: A Special Situation
  Ad TOET, Community of European Railways, Brussels

• Conclusions: Making Competitive Tendering Work
  Lou THOMPSON, Thompson, Galenson and Associates, Washington D.C.