The case explains the financing and construction of the tunnel between England and France under the channel and the difficult decisions in terms of pricing the new operator of the tunnel (Eurotunnel) must make in order to compete against the well-established ferry companies.
This report on the Channel Tunnel assesses the effect of Eurotunnel operations on passengers and freight passing through the Eastern Channel sector by examining: how services will operate, including traffic projections for passengers, ...
Cross-Channel Car Ferries: A Report on the Existence Or Possible Existence of a Monopoly Situation in Relation to the Supply...
Includes: Report and annexes
Published in 1999, this work is mainly related to ferry services and operations in a number of marketplaces in Europe.
The Channel Tunnel Project: An Objective Appraisal
... Eurotunnel is sufficient , particularly for small companies in south east England ⚫ decisions to use Eurotunnel or ferries are made mainly by the company with tight controls on vehicle movement ⚫ the major price discounting by Eurotunnel ...
In an increasingly globalised world, despite reductions in costs and time, transportation has become even more important as a facilitator of economic and human interaction; this is reflected in technical advances in transportation systems, ...
These experiments: suggest that Chisholm and O'Sullivan's results exaggerated the variation between origins in distance parameter values by a factor of about 2.5. Indeed, comparison of the range of values with the standard errors for ...
... Eurotunnel or a ferry , both of which run to Calais . From here it should take around 3 hours 15 minutes to drive to ... ferries include shops , cafés , bureaux de change and lounges . From Calais , it takes around 3 hours 15 minutes to ...
As a market segment, volunteer tourists spend in excess of US$3000 a trip and TRAM (2008) estimated the size of the global market as 1.6 million volunteers per year. This was valued at between £832 000 and £1.3 million.