European rail: more central than ever This special issue of NIQ concludes the EU’s ‘year of rail.’ Over the past 30 years the EU has driven the transformation of the European rail sector with the aim of making it more efficient and more competitive vis-à-vis road. It...
Infrastructure Investment Challenges: reconciling Competition, Decarbonisation and Digitalisation
Infrastructure Investment Challenges: reconciling Competition, Decarbonisation and Digitalisation Investment has always been a challenge in the network industries. Since the 1990s liberalisation has exacerbated this challenge, owing to the different time horizons...
Building and Governing EU Networks
Building and Governing EU Networks The EU’s basic objective is to create a single European Market as a tool for political integration. This objective is being transposed into all economically strategic sectors, including at a data level in each of these sectors. In...
Greening of Infrastructure Assets
Greening of Infrastructure Assets This special issue of Network Industries Quarterly is dedicated to the greening of infrastructure assets. Despite the unprecedented challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission has reaffirmed its...