Chinese Railways Reform and Efficiency Improvement Opportunities
Although being huge by any measure, Chinese Railways are a bottleneck for economic growth in China. The state-owned enterprise returns a small profit but is severely capacity constrained and burdened with inefficiency. A comprehensive reform and efficiency improvement program needs to be developed i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg
Physica
2008, 2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008 |
| Series: | Contributions to Economics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Foundations
- Introduction: China’s Need for Efficient Logistics
- The State of China’s Logistics Sector and the Role of Chinese Railways
- Methodology for Analysis of Chinese Railways
- The Macro Perspective on Chinese Railways’ Efficiency: Railway Reform and Deregulation
- Chinese Railways’ Status Quo
- Approaches to Regulation of Railways
- Suggestions for Regulation of Chinese Railways
- The Micro Perspective on Chinese Railways’ Efficiency: Improvement of Operational Effectiveness
- Chinese Railways’ Current Sources of Inefficiency
- Approaches to Railway Efficiency Improvement
- Suggestions for Improvement of Chinese Railways’ Operational Efficiency
- Conclusions
- Conclusions