This Resources page collates papers, resources and links on a range of business improvement issues, concentrating on the transport sector.

Index of case study papers

Productivity improvement

• Best Methods of Railway Restructuring and Privatization. Ron Kopicki, Louis S. Thompson, with Murray King et al. World Bank CFS Discussion Series 1995.
  
  
• Rail Productivity Improvements in New Zealand. Productivity Upgradation Seminar. Address to UIC Meter Gauge Group, Stockholm, Sweden - May 1997.

Privatisation

• Managing the Transition from Public to Private Ownership. Paper presented by Dr Francis Small to AsiaRail 96 Conference.
  
  
• "NZ Rail Privatisation is a Success". International Railway Journal, March 1995.
  
  
• "Privatisation Benefits Railway and Customers". International Railway Journal, August 1997.
  
  
• Rail Reform: Paper prepared for 20th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 1996.

Other

• "Building a Model Railway". The Bulletin. February 20, 1996.
  
  
• Australasian Rail Industry: Issues for the Future. Address to the Rail Finance and Investment Conference, August 2000.
  
  
• "Railways in New Zealand", in Utility Regulation in Australia and New Zealand. Privatisation International, London 2000.
  
  
• Lessons from the New Zealand Ministerial Inquiry into Rail Safety. Paper to Australian Rail Safety Conference, Sydney - February 2001.
  
  
• Rail Transport Infrastructure in the 21st century. Speaker at the Chartered Institute of Transport, Auckland - June 2000 at Forum 2000 Transport & Distribution: Success in a Fast Changing World.
  
  
• Conducting a Business Nationally under the Resource Management Act. Paper to the Resource Management Conference, Auckland - March 1995.
  
  
• Integrated or Separate Infrastructure Management - Experiences. Paper to the IRC/UIC Congress, Marrakech - October 1997.
  
  
• Ministerial Inquiry into Incis, November 2000.