Chinese Railways Reform and Efficiency Improvement Opportunities /

• Main Author: Luger, Katrin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2008.
• Series: Contributions to Economics,
• Subjects: Management.; Industrial management.; Automotive engineering.; Development economics.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Automotive Engineering.

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...

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.