Starting June 21st, the private rail sector can run its own trains on the Turkish railway infrastructure. The Turkish Government had set the deadline for completing all legal steps about liberalisation of railway transport.
The liberalisation procedure engages the reforming of TCDD as infrastructure manager and train operator and the establishment of TCDD Tasimacilik (TCDD Transport), legislation for licenses of train operators and other rail companies and the publication of the rail network statement.
Legislation involves general terms and pricing 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.
Share on:
