Office of the Rail Regulator (Abridged) Case Solution
This case is about the initial four years of John Swift's time as the Rail Regulator of Britain and the problems he confronted in the autumn of 1997. The Regulator's main occupation was to review arrangements and the accessibility charges between Railtrack, the monopoly infrastructure company, and the TOCs. In the autumn of 1997, the Regulator was attempting to get Railtrack to live up to some investment guarantees that it was preparing for the next access charge review and had made during its first access charge review.
Additionally, the Labor Party had won May 1997 elections and as a result, finishing 18 straight years of Conservative Party rule, and the Regulator was attempting to create a friendly working environment with the new government in light of the sudden shift of governance. The case is thought to support a discussion of political pressures and the analytic challenges facing a regulator of a recently privatized sector. The teacher may focus the class discussion on the issues in establishing the proper access charges, including strategies for collecting the info he wants the regulator faces. HKS Instance Number 1533.3
This is just an excerpt. This case is about FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
PUBLICATION DATE: March 09, 1998
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