Organizational Structures & Performance Evaluation of Railways: Based on European Railway Reform Experiences and applied to Israel Railways

Organizational Structures & Performance Evaluation of Railways: Based on European Railway Reform Experiences and applied to Israel Railways

Wolff, J.W.

Hansen, I.A. (mentor)
Wiggenraad, P.B.L. (mentor)
Veeneman, W.W. (mentor)
Körmeling, H.A. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics

TIL

2011-09-29

European railways have faced fundamental reforms to their organizational structures in the past decades. The reform plans, instigated by the European Union, resulted in a vast arrange of organizational structures visible today, more or less unique per EU member state. The main question that arises: do performances of European railways relate to the type of organizational structure in place? Did the EU reform plans indeed increase efficiency and effectiveness in Europe’s railway sectors? Israel’s railways possess a much shorter history than its European counterparts. The current organizational structure of Israel Railways presents a number of issues in adequately managing infrastructure and transport operations. Israel is interested to learn from experiences in European railway sectors if a renewed organizational structure might increase overall performance. The thesis work closely examines organizational structures and evaluates performances of railway sectors in 27 European countries. It investigates if a correlation between organizational structure and performance is visible at all and which lessons of the European reform plans can be taken along in designing optional new structures for Israel Railways.

railways
Europe
Israel
organization
performance evaluation

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Student theses

master thesis

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