Pricing in the railway transport
Streszczenie
The pricing policy seems to be very important part of the strategy of the entire enterprise. The
company’s position on a competitive market depends on the ability to make optimal pricing decisions. The
article discusses the determinants of transport services’ prices and methods of their calculation (cost method,
demand method and method based on competition). The main objective of the paper is the identification
of the pricing determinants in the context of the rail transport. According to the authors, the most important
determinants of rail transport services prices are mainly connected to prime cost, but also to factors
classified into following groups: transportation enterprise, customer, market and competition. The introduction
to the research was the examination of the largest rail operators in Poland and their pricing
models.
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