Off the Rails
Spencer D Naith
Broschiertes Buch

Off the Rails

The Privatisation of Freight Railways in Australia and New Zealand, and the Consequences

Versandkostenfrei!
Versandfertig in 1-2 Wochen
84,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
PAYBACK Punkte
42 °P sammeln!
This book tells the stories of the transformation of the rail freight industry, in Australia and New Zealand, from 1990 to 2020.Privatisation was seen in the 1990s as the way for state and national governments to avoid the on-going deficits of their railway systems. The policy of privatisation was applied with faith and hope, but with no understanding of the risks for governments as policy-makers for their economies and for land transport. Governments became ignorant of, and uninterested in, the freight rail industry, and thus were unprepared for the consequences of their earlier decisions. In...