Mainly on the Elbe River - Central Europe

3.1.2 The price for using railway transport infrastructure
The rules for charging a railway route (RR) are set in the Directive 2001/14/EC. The directive
defines the way of charging based on so-called marginal costs.
Individual items of basic charges of the RR for selected countries are listed below.
The additional charges for passing through a tunnel, parking in a station, forming of trains etc. are
not included.
The rates of charges are valid for the year 2010.
3.1.2.1 The Czech Republic
The amount and the type of charges of the RR are adopted from the Price Notification
of the Ministry of Finance no. 01/2010 and the Railway Statement 2010 / 2011. The minimum
access packages include charges based on passed distance “train km” and “brutto tons km” and
on assigned capacity. The charges vary according to the RR category. For the purpose of
comparing transported load by various transport modes, the national railway network included
in the European railway system was selected 11 .
11 Charging of the railway infrastructure in terms of its competitiveness in the international transport, the 2009 Report,
CityPlan spol. s r. o.
A feasibility study for “Improvement of Conditions for the River Transport in Central Europe (mainly on the Elbe
River)“ realized within the ChemLog project 124