Issues on modal shift of freight from road to rail in Japan: Review of rail track ownership, investment and access charges after the National Railway restructuring

• 水谷, 淳

• Fukuda, Seiji

抄録

When Japanese National Railways was privatized and separated in 1987, the government established a new freight train operation scheme where rail tracks were owned by six JR Passenger companies, and JR-Freight was allowed access to the JR Passenger company's tracks by paying an access charge under the avoidable cost rule, regulated by the national government. The aim of this scheme was to reduce the track costs for JR-Freight. We found that rail freight infrastructure investment had not been high enough because it was only conducted by JR-Freight, and it only included investment in a few facilities owned by JR-Freight but excluded investment in the rail tracks owned by the JR passenger companies. Additionally, the track access charges, calculated by the avoidable cost rule, could not compensate for the track maintenance costs and would induce an undersupply of rail tracks for rail freight traffic. In conclusion, the track access charges paid from JR-Freight to the JR Passenger companies were too low, causing difficulties in the promotion of a modal shift to rail freight.

収録刊行物

• Research in Transportation Business & Management

  Research in Transportation Business & Management 35 100484-, 2020-06

  Elsevier

キーワード

• Modal shift
• Rail freight transport
• Track access charge
• Avoidable cost rule

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050856995322292608
• NII論文ID: 120006892073
• ISSN: 22105409
• ISSN: 22105395
• HANDLE: 20.500.14094/90007518
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
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