PROCESSES OF RAILWAYS PRIVATIZATION IN CHOSEN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

Presentation of the organizational changes in railways in chosen European countries is the main objective of the paper. The author found that there are three models of railway functioning in Europe in relation to the ownership. Only the United Kingdom has decided to radically change its railway system, conducting its material privatization. Most of the Member States of the Community limited themselves to merely formal privatization, releasing the structures of departmental units involved in infrastructure management and the transport operations which, although they constitute a legally separate entities, still remain in the public domain.