Conditions of a quality public railway service in Hungary

Abstract

A railway operator, in order to sustain its competitive power, has to dispose of an innovative and cost-effective service development strategy that provides the procurer with the best service available for the lowest claim of support. The basics of the effective fulfilment of this public service task are: introducing an attractive, supply-based schedule and on these foundations, a development programme. In Hungary - with the increasing mobility, the competition getting sharper in the transportation sector and the liberalization just around the corner - the effective use of state resources claimed by public transport systems and the competitiveness of the railway passenger transport are made possible only by laying on the regular interval timetable.