Special Eurobarometer 388: Rail competition

This report focuses on competition in the railway market.Opening up national freight and passenger markets to cross-border competition is a major step towards the creation of an integrated European railway area and of a genuine EU internal market for rail.
All European railway operators would then be in a position to offer efficient services that meet passenger and business expectations, along with better connections between EU and neighbouring markets.
The outline of the report is as follows.
- Current use of trains in the EU: frequency, reasons and satisfaction
- Support for rail market competition in the EU
- Expected impact of rail market on:
- rail services
- individual stakeholders
- public funding
- Effects of rail market competition wished for:
- railway offers
- ways of buying tickets

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics

Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer