Case Studies
The use of contractual forms to fund passenger public service obligations is illustrated in some of the case studies presented in this toolkit including examples from both private and public frameworks. Such contracts exist to ensure continuation of passenger services on many privately run freight concessions in Latin America and Africa; they also form the basis of the long-distance passenger services operated by the state-owned Via Rail on the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific private networks. In the public framework, competitively tendered PSCs are used to procure specific rail passenger services in regional markets in Germany, Finland and Sweden. The corporate case study of Virgin Rail shows how one private company has responded to being awarded what is essentially a PSC (in UK).
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