Allocating Track Maintenance Costs on Shared Rail Facilities

Resor, R R; Patel, Pradeep Kumar

doi:10.3141/1785-04

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“…Lopez-Pita (2001) tried to weight the cost share fairly between passenger service and freight operation by considering the proportion of wear and tear and speed differentiation. Resor and Patel (2002) suggested that a cost allocation model might be used to derive the fair share of maintenance costs of a shared asset. The authors, using a model they have developed for Conrail, argued that the incremental costs of passenger services are large and the share of maintenanceof-way cost for freight should be much smaller than what AMTRAK has estimated.…”

Section: Shared Responsibilitiesmentioning

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Understanding the Shared Operation of Commuter Rail Transit and Freight Railroads

Liu¹,

Yang²,

Chen³

2010

J Transp Res Forum

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Seeking a thorough understanding of shared operation between commuter rail transit and freight railroads, a nationwide survey was conducted of transit and rail freight interaction. This survey contacted and received responses from all 21 commuter rail services in North America. In addition to a general understanding of the shared-use practices, this paper presents the key factors that contribute or impede successful shared-use operations between commuter rail and freight railroads by examining detailed operation arrangements, shared asset management, dispatching priorities, accident histories, and insurance and liability issues. A few critical issues directly related to the success of future shared operations are highlighted for the reference of new-start systems and those who are seeking knowledge in the arena of shared-use operations.

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Section: Shared Responsibilitiesmentioning

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Understanding the Shared Operation of Commuter Rail Transit and Freight Railroads

Liu¹,

Yang²,

Chen³

2010

J Transp Res Forum

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“…Generally, train speed is decreased and other restrains are brought, however this method is economically ineffective. Railway road and rolling stock technical level can be effectively improved only by huge investments to the modernization of the mentioned economy [2,6,8].…”

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Research Into Safe Traffic of Lithuanian Railway Lines

2005

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The European Union directions pay a specific focus on traffic safety. Safety of railway transport traffic is among priority fields which has a direct effect on the quality of life of the population. It is most convenient to consider the number of breaks and accidents per year as the indicator of traffic safety. Reasons of traffic accidents can be very different. Most accidents occur due to poor technical condition of rolling‐stock and infrastructure, the human factor and the deficient organization of traffic. Stock Company “Lithuanian railways” can not assure safe traffic yet. The number of traffic incidents decreased in a few preserves only. Considering that, it is necessary to prepare a strategy for traffic safety and the program for its implementation. In 2002 specialists started preparing a study for safe traffic. The study is important for the preparation and implementation of the mentioned program. First results obtained from the research have already approved the importance of the influence of infrastructure, rolling‐stock and a human factor on traffic safety. The research carried out indicates positive changes in the situation of traffic safety of Lithuanian railways.

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“…These causative factors are driven both by regulatory requirements and the specific environmental and physical track and roadway degradation relationships. The alternative to informed local engineering judgment is the use of well-known model approaches, such as the speed factored gross ton (SFGT) model form and the weighted system average cost (WSAC) model form (9). Whether the use of the SFGT and WSAC models is appropriate depends on whether or not either model form can be successfully applied to the terminal railway case.…”

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Pricing Commuter, Intercity, and Freight Trains in a Terminal Railway Context: An Approach

Bertie¹

2003

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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The cost-of-service (or fully allocated cost) pricing model has been criticized in the economics literature. The criticisms generally focus on the issues of cross-subsidization problems from using average costs and economically inefficient pricing. A fully allocated cost model, applied to a terminal railroad setting, is presented that can substantively overcome these criticisms by using a resource consumption approach for key cost drivers. A successful implementation of a new cost recovery system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is used that applies these resource consumption concepts. A necessary precondition to this approach is the charting of the classes of traffic (commuter, intercity, and freight) into operated-track segmented paths, each of which consists of a set of one or more track links. Each traffic class path is characterized as either consisting of sole-use links, joint-use links, or a combination thereof. Operating and capital costs directly attributable to the track links are calculated. A reverse engineering work-effort-per-activity approach is used for assigning the total routine maintenance of way and maintenance of signals budget dollars to the terminal track links. The resource consumption approach provides a logical framework and analytical platform for analyzing link infrastructure complexity; system, path, and link capacity; path and link cost performance; and path and link renewal and replacement capital planning and capital sharing responsibility.

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Allocating Track Maintenance Costs on Shared Rail Facilities

Cited by 5 publications

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Understanding the Shared Operation of Commuter Rail Transit and Freight Railroads

Understanding the Shared Operation of Commuter Rail Transit and Freight Railroads

Research Into Safe Traffic of Lithuanian Railway Lines

Pricing Commuter, Intercity, and Freight Trains in a Terminal Railway Context: An Approach

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