Rail Industry Structure and Funding
This volume provides a description of the structure of the industry, including the key organisations and an outline of their functions. It provides data on rail franchise market shares and goes on to consider industry funding.
The volume considers:
- The supply structure, including
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- an analysis of the current franchises
- how the structure developed from the old British Railways organisation
- the evolution of the franchise process under OPRAF, the SRA and the DfT
- A detailed look at the functions and roles of train operating companies (TOCs)
- An account of the evolution of the current structure since 1993
- An overview of key industry bodies, including regulatory bodies, the competition authorities, the DfT, Network Rail and other enterprises
- Government Funding, a section which provides
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- an overview of Government funding and its evolution
- a look at the 10-year plan
- a discussion of the new funding settlement provided by the High Level Output Statement of July 2007
- A review of the role of Local Government, which provides
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- some analysis of the history of local government funding of the rail industry
- A review of the potential new source of the Trainsport Innovation fund
- Data on revenue support and a review of the future
- The PTE networks: this chapter reviews the nature and extent of the regional networks in our conurbations and considers:
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- Funding
- Networks
- Relative Growth Performance
Volume 2 contains 70 pages with 7 graphs and 24 tables of data. As well as forming part of the main report, this volume can be purchased separately in PDF format.