Contents: 1. Railway Regulation: A comparative analysis of a diverging reality Juan Montero and Matthias Finger 2. Railway Regulation in Germany Thomas Fetzer 3. The ongoing process of liberalization of the railway sector in France Stéphane de la Rosa 4. Developments in Rail Regulation in Britain Chris Nash and Andrew Smith 5. Railway Regulation in Italy Nadia Bert and Germano Guglielmi 6. Spain: Between the failure of freight and the success of high speed Alberto Garcia Alvarez 7. Railways in Switzerland Matthias Finger 8. Regulatory challenges of open-access passenger competition in the Czech Republic Zdeněk Tomeš, Martin Kvizda, Monika Jandová and Václav Rederer 9. China’s railway development: a cyclical process of de-regulation and re-regulation Linda Tjia Yin-nor 10. Railways in South Korea Leif Karlén 11. Indian railways: challenges and opportunities Rachna Gangwar 12. Railways in Japan Fumio Kurosaki 13. Rail sector reforms and regulation in Russia Yu.Z. Saakyan 14. The deregulation of Turkish railways Şahin Ardıyok and Evren Sesli 15. Railways and Railways Regulation in the United States: Surely You Don’t Want Jones Back? Russell Pittman 16. Towards a new architecture for technical regulation of Europe’s railways Christian Chavanel 17. Regulating Rail Mass Transit: A century-long legacy and still looking for fine tuning Pierre Messulam 18. Competitive tendering for regional trains: What can be learnt from economic literature? Patricia Perennes 19. Competition law challenges in domestic rail passenger services Mariarosaria Ganino 20. Financing railways Georg Götz and Jan Thomas Schäfer 21. The consumer perspective on railways Mark van Hagen 22. Competition in the market of rail passenger services: the experience of small and medium-sized new entrants in long-distance services in Europe Rodolfo Ramos 23. High-speed rail: From first principles to final expectations Michel Leboeuf 24. The digitalization dilemma in the railway industry Juan Montero Index

‘This book is for those who appreciate the role of railways in transport and in reaching broader public objectives. It is a well-developed and well-written compendium of 14 country-specific rail sector analyses combined with nine topic-oriented discussions covering the tradeoffs between structure, competition objectives, and the scope and powers of regulation. The Handbook does a good job of presenting the experience and near-term prospects of an extremely complex set of issues.’