10th seminar 2015

Main Theme: Competitive tendering in public transport - opportunities and threats.

Aim: Discuss current issues related to competitive tendering for ensuring the rail and bus services, both from the perspective of contracting authority and competing carriers.

Main questions:

• Criteria of tenders and their schedule;
• Optimal duration and scope of the contract;
• Good and bad experiences from realized tenders;
• Criticism, needs and vision - what's next in competitive tendering;
• Geographical segmentation of services in competitive tendering;
• Economy of competitive tendering - costs and losses.

The program also included a panel discussion on "Effect of high speed rail to regional development".

Published seminar report (Review of Economic Perspectives)

Programme:

5^th of November

1^st Block - CARRIERS AND STATE

• 10:00 - M. Kvizda: Opening of the Seminar
• 10:10 - A. Peltrám: Competitive tendering in public transport from the perspective of macroeconomics
• 10:30 - V. Gáborová - J. Gašparík: Development of competition in long distance rail transport for ensuring public transport services in SR
• 11:00 - Z. Tomeš: Foreign experience with competitive tendering in railway transport
• 11:30 - J. Hrabáček - T. Pospíšil: Czech Railways in clutches of competitive tendering
• 12:00 - J. Nálevka: Competition in railway transport - opportunity or risk?

2^nd Block - VIEW OF INDEPENDENTS

• 13:30 - T. Horáček: Legislative aspects of competitive tendering
• 14:00 - J. Pohl: The influence of technical innovations on the goals and instruments of public transport
• 14:30 - L. Pečený - J. Ponický - J. Gašparík: Transport services in public passenger transport in conditions of the Slovak Republic
• 15:00 - D. Seidenglanz: Geographical delimitation of competing units in tenders
• 15:30 - A. Dolinayová - L. Černá - J. Daniš: The current state of price regulation in public railway transport in Slovakia

3^rd Block - EXPERIENCE FROM THE REGIONS

• 16:30 - P. Meško - M. Chovancová: Evaluation of the fulfillment of quality standards in regional passenger rail transport in Slovakia
• 17:00 - M. Benediktová: Experience with preparing tenders for bus transport in the Pilsen Region
• 17:30 - K. Novák - M. Farbiak: The tender for the bus operators in South Moravian integrated public transport system
• 18:00 - J. Jeřábek: Experience of the Usti Region with competitive tendering in public transport

6^th of November

Panel discussion

• 10:00 - D. Seidenglanz - M. Horňák - J. Pohl - P. Pšenička: Effect of high speed rail to regional development - panel discussion
• 12:00 - M. Kvizda – T. Nigrin – D. Seidenglanz – Z. Tomeš: Final summary of the seminar and recommendations of Telč group