Legal regulation and its effect to the service system of the infrastructure manager

Abstract

The article explains the legal background of developing railway infrastructure services and how the infrastructure managers on the basis of the legal regulation improve their service systems. As an example, the changes and the structure of the Hungarian infrastructure service system and its elements are introduced by comparison of the Hungarian Network Statement for 2004-2005 and Network Statement for 2006. Proposal for development are also given. The article gives details about the reason why such many different service systems were developed and what kind of conditions the Infrastructure Managers have to take into consideration before introducing a new service.