Network Industries Quarterly

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6000 Persons

We currently distribute to over 6000 persons, most of whom we have come to know personally at some point over the past years.

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Since 2008

Network Industries Quarterly has been published four times a year since 2008

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In 1999

It has started as a paper version in 1999 in French and switched to an English online version as the audience had become increasingly more international. Over the years partnerships had been established with TU Delft (since stopped), the Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute) and the Istanbul Center for Regulation (Istanbul Technical University).

Since 2014

As of 2014, Network Industries Quarterly appears under a new layout, it is included in the EUI research repository Cadmus

Rail Capacity Management

Rail Capacity Management Rail has a key role to play in making transport more efficient and sustainable in the EU and elsewhere. However, increasing passenger and cargo volumes require investment in infrastructure, and also more efficient track capacity management....

European rail: more central than ever

Dec 16, 2021

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

Sep 27, 2021

Investment has always been a challenge in the network industries. Since the 1990s liberalisation has exacerbated this challenge, owing to the different time horizons between the interests of the private sector, the long-term nature of the infrastructure assets and their public service nature. Climate change and the need to decarbonise the infrastructures, as well as the recent focus on digitalisation have only added to the investment challenges in the different network industries.

Building and Governing EU Networks

Jun 28, 2021

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.

Greening of Infrastructure Assets

Mar 29, 2021

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 commitment to the objectives of the European Green Deal and to transforming Europe into the first climate neutral continent by 2050.