Railway stations: The French Regulatory Authority for Rail and Road Activities advises government on France railway stations management

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The issue of the independence of the manager of essential infrastructure vis-à-vis users, which is well known in the field of energy regulation but more complicated to implement in the rail transport sector, is now at the heart of the recent concerns of the Regulatory Authority for Rail and Road Activities. The latter has just submitted to the government a Thematic Study on the Management of Passenger Railway Stations in France in July 2016. According to article 29 of the law of 4 August 2014 on railway reform, the government will submit a report to Parliament within two years on "the management of passenger railway stations as well as the terms and impact