READ ME File For 'Dataset for the expert interviews 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 Policy Recommendation and Validation chapter in The theoretical and practical aspects of railway reform: implications for Saudi Arabia.  

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA
This dataset presents the results of the expert interviews. The dataset consists of seven responses from the Saudi rail experts. The results are divided into two sections. The first section is open questions, which aim to obtain a background about the participants (e.g., years of experience, area of expertise and occupations). The second section is questions that are built on a Likert scale to obtain the opinions of the Saudi rail experts to measure the levels of policy recommendations, which are listed as follows
 Institutional separation policy;
 Organisational separation policy;
 Regional separation policy;
 Market function separation policy;
 On-track competition policy for freight rail services;
 Off-track competition policy; and
 Open-access competition policy for passenger rail services.



This dataset contains:

 Participant background: years of experience, area of expertise and occupations
 Participant recommendations for rail policies.


Date of data collection: 15/03/2022 to 15/04/2022

Information about geographic location of data collection: Saudi Arabia

Licence: Unknown

Related publication: None

Date that the file was created: June, 2022

