Turkish Railways (TCDD) General Manager, İsa Apaydın and TCDD Taşımacılık General Director, Veysi Kurt, signed the official contract for the rail access agreement.
İsa Apaydın, the General Director of TCDD, recalled that there is a new beginning in railway transport which started with 1 January 2017, and after the Law on Liberalisation of Turkish Railway Transport, the work on secondary legislation as well as the restructuring of TCDD and the subsidiary partnership, TCDD Taşımacılık, was completed and the operation is also finalised.
The Rail Liberalisation Legislation involves general terms and taxation of open access to rail network, procedure for usage of capacity, content of contracts between infrastructure operator(s) and train operators as well as how restrictions/construction works should be managed.
With this legislation, access to rail network is now completely free.
The private operators will pay track access charges to TCDD. The customers of the railway – both existing and new – are given a wider range of choice in terms of service quality and pricing. So they can choose which train operator to use.
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