Open Access (Infrastructure)

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Open Access (Infrastructure) is infrastructure such as railways were clients other than the owners can use it albeit for a fee.

Most railways are inherently open access and operate as common carriers.

Railways within say a steel works are private and not available to outsiders, although it is not clear why outsiders would want access to the confines of a steelworks.

It that steelworks had a port or a railway to a distant mine, then outsiders might want access to those to save having to incurr a possibly large cost of building their own facility.

Contents 1 Pilbara Railways 2 Fees 3 Public Interest 4 References

[edit] Pilbara Railways

In the northwest of Western Australia, two large mining companies are trying to deny access to other albeit small players. Strictly speaking, when these mines started in the 1960s, they were supposed to make their infrastructure available to other players, but since this has not actually happened until recently, it was a moot point. ^[1]

In the same region, the Fortescue Metals Group railway has been set up for open access for a fee.

[edit] Fees

A player seeking access to infrastructure would expect to pay several fees of a capital and operating kind. Hopefully the cost of this is less than having to built separate infrastrucure.

[edit] Public Interest

It is in the public interest that access disputes be resolved in an efficience way, so that for example, profits are maximised and therefore income tax on those profits is also maximised.

[edit] References

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