READ ME File For 'Dataset for the Cost Assessment chapter in The theoretical and practical aspects of railway reform: implications for Saudi Arabia'

Dataset DOI: Unknown

ReadMe Author: Sultan Alsaedi and John Preston, University of Southampton

This dataset supports the Cost Assessment chapter in The theoretical and practical aspects of railway reform: implications for Saudi Arabia. 

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA
The dataset is designed to conduct the cost assessment. The dataset covers 22 railway systems from Africa, Asia and Europe from 2000 to 2017. The data was collected from the International Union of Railways (UIC) and the World Bank and filled from the annual reports published by railway companies. The dataset consists of operating costs, two outputs, two input prices and network-line length in km. The cost data is expressed in purchasing power parity USD. The two outputs are passenger and freight carried measured as passenger-km and tonne-km, respectively. The input prices represent the prices of labour and energy and materials. The labour prices are measured as the total labour cost divided by the number of workers. The energy and material prices are obtained as the total material cost divided by the total number of rolling stocks. Rail policy variables that reflect railway reform are also included in the dataset. The vertical structure is represented by the vertical integration, the institutional separation and organisational separation. The horizontal structure is represented by the regional separation of rail services and the market function separation. The competition forms are represented by the freight market deregulation and the competitive tendering for passenger rail services. Lastly, the dataset contains GDP per capita, population density and line density as country characterisations.


This dataset contains:

 Passenger carried measured as million passenger-km.
 Freight carried measured as million tonne-km.
 Total number of rolling stocks (locomotives, coaches, wagons and railcars).
 Network-line length in km.
 Number of employees.
 Labour price expressed in PPP USD.
 Energy and material price expressed in PPP USD.
 Vertical structure.
 Regional separation.
 On-track competition.
 Off-track competition.
 GDP per capita in USD.
 Line density measured as line divided by 1000 km2.
 Population density measured as population divided by km2.


Date of data collection: 10/09/2018 to 15/01/2022

Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K.

Licence: Unknown

Related publication: the International Union of Railways (UIC) and the World Bank.

Date that the file was created: June, 2022

