Zbornik radova Koridor 10 - Kirilo Savić

3rd International Scientific and Professional Conference
CORRIDOR 10 - a sustainable way of integrations
and provide compensation of transportation expenses for consignors and owners of private sidings
which use sidings to transport their goods. For these entities financial incentives could be provided in
the form of compensation or part of the cost of transport in the form of a tax deduction on the tax
return. As a criterion of the scope, the extent of sidings use per kilometre or volume of tonnage /
wagons at the sidings could be used.
Measure 11: The introduction of a state aid system for partial refund of transport costs
for users of railway sidings.
Existing system of financial incentives, governed by the law of the railway traffic, granted to carriers in
railway traffic, may be worth exploring in terms of efficiency and by upgrading and complementing the
system of state aid, which is in line with the Community guidelines on State aid for railway
undertakings.
A balanced and well-designed program of incentives for railway traffic carriers would also contribute to
a more competitive rail transport (more efficient deliveries, greater flexibility, lower rail fares, ...), and
this would consequently reached a higher interest of owners and other potential users of sidings for
rail transport services.
Measure 12: Introduce of incentives to improve the quality and competitiveness of
railway transport carrier.
An appropriate spatial planning of business centers and industrial plants in the local spatial planning
documents can significantly contribute to the improvement of the use of sidings and, consequently, to
greater use of rail transport. For this purpose, it is reasonable to establish the criteria under which it
will allow the construction or development of such facilities only in the immediate vicinity of the railway
infrastructure, if under these facilities, business that can service the transport network will be held.
Measure 13: Promote the development of commercial centers and industrial plants in
the immediate vicinity of the public railway infrastructure.
To improve the use of private sidings it is very important that in conjunction with other measures also
support measures for transport, environmental and other policies are implemented, which will improve
the conditions of rail transport compared with other modes of transport, especially road transport, and
will encourage relief of road infrastructure by shifting freight from road to rail.
Such measures include in particular: the internalisation of transport costs with the introduction of fees
for heavy road freight vehicles, the mark-up to the tolls on sections where there is severe congestion,
and for road vehicles, causing significant environmental damage; the introduction or upgrading of
existing systems of state aid that promote the development of terminals and intermodal transport;
introduction of stricter time limits in the transport of goods by road.
Measure 14: Increase the competitiveness of rail transport and promote the freight shift
from road to rail with supportive measures.
By creating the conditions and by encouragement of conclusion of long-term contractual relationships
between the owners and users of private sidings, operators and carriers, the reduction in risks would
be reached that otherwise owners of sidings assume when investing their capital in the development
of sidings and by their application.
Measure 15: Promote long-term cooperation between the users of railway sidings,
carriers and operators of public railway infrastructure.
The big problem with the use of private sidings highlighted by owners of sidings is the communication
between the key players involved in the realization of the railway transport, between the state as
owner of public railway infrastructure, carriers and users of private sidings.
Country as a carrier for the promotion and development of transport by rail could therefore be active
and as promoter or initiator in the involvement in the design of open dialogue between the owners and
operators (eg, the creation of an informal network of interested parties, information portal for
monitoring the development and use of sidings) and thereby promote the development of a unified
strategic planning.
Measure 16: Unifying strategic planning and create open dialogue between users of
railway sidings, carriers and country.
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