Britain’s national railway network: fit for purpose in the 21st century?

Haywood, Russ

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2006.02.015

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“…capacity and line operation costs). As stated by Haywood (2007), this may be a consequence of the transport problem faced by all western European countries in an era dominated by road transport and a context where the case for rail rests on a mix of economic, social and environmental factors which justifies some measure of public subsidy in order to transfer modal shift from road to rail.…”

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Are rail charges connected to costs?

Calvo¹,

Oña²

2012

Journal of Transport Geography

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Are rail charges connected to costs?

Calvo¹,

Oña²

2012

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…However, some inferences may be drawn from a reconstruction of the total rail network length (Fig. ) based on official information from the Department for Transport (HM Government, ) for 1900 onward, and studies by Martí‐Henneberg () and Haywood () prior to 1900.…”

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A Probabilistic Model of the Economic Risk to Britain's Railway Network from Bridge Scour During Floods

Lamb

Garside²,

Pant

et al. 2019

Risk Analysis

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Scour (localized erosion by water) is an important risk to bridges, and hence many infrastructure networks, around the world. In Britain, scour has caused the failure of railway bridges crossing rivers in more than 50 flood events. These events have been investigated in detail, providing a data set with which we develop and test a model to quantify scour risk. The risk analysis is formulated in terms of a generic, transferrable infrastructure network risk model. For some bridge failures, the severity of the causative flood was recorded or can be reconstructed. These data are combined with the background failure rate, and records of bridges that have not failed, to construct fragility curves that quantify the failure probability conditional on the severity of a flood event. The fragility curves generated are to some extent sensitive to the way in which these data are incorporated into the statistical analysis. The new fragility analysis is tested using flood events simulated from a spatial joint probability model for extreme river flows for all river gauging sites in Britain. The combined models appear robust in comparison with historical observations of the expected number of bridge failures in a flood event. The analysis is used to estimate the probability of single or multiple bridge failures in Britain's rail network. Combined with a model for passenger journey disruption in the event of bridge failure, we calculate a system‐wide estimate for the risk of scour failures in terms of passenger journey disruptions and associated economic costs.

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“…Then • Parameter T i,1 -reciprocal value of tortuosity, it is represented by the rate between aerial distance between starting and terminal stopping point of the section and its real length by the formula: • Parameter T i,2 -rate between average track speed within the section and the maximum reached value of it within the whole batch of monitored sections represented by formula: • Parameter T i, 5 -rate between points received within the criterion "speed reduction" and theoretical maximum (no speed reduction), where the worst result is represented by 16 penalty points, which is rooted in an internal multicriteria analysis:…”

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Evaluation of Potential of Regional Railway Lines

Javořík¹,

Novotny²,

Týfa³

et al. 2017

Transport Problems

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There is a significant number of railway networks within many Middle-and East-European countries operated only by regional lines, usually with a great difference between travel demand and transportation offer. This difference is reflected in the whole economic balance of the lines of the service there, resulting as an essential input for the assessment of rail system efficiency. This paper is the conclusion of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), Faculty of Transportation Sciences research and development project (further as the Project), which aims to analyse the current status and potential of the regional railway network in the country. The paper presents the characteristics of that segment of Czech railway network from the perspective of all scopes evaluated within the Project. A general multi-branch categorization of regional lines is proposed, arising from their technical and economical parameters, and potential for travelling. BEWERTUNG DES POTENZIALS DER EISENBAHNSTRECKEN VON REGIONALER BEDEUTUNG Annotation. Das Eisenbahnnetz der Länder vor allem im Mittel-und Osteuropa weist einen großen Anteil der Eisenbahnstrecken auf, die nur der Verkehrsbedienung von dem lokalen Charakter mit einem oft abgründigen Unterschied zwischen der Beförderungsnachfrage und dem Verkehrsangebot dienen. Dieser Unterschied beeinflusst das Wirtschaftsresultat dieser Strecken, resp. des auf ihnen betriebenen Verkehrs, und stellt somit eine wesentliche Eingabe für die Bewertung der Effektivität des ganzen Eisenbahnsystems dar. Der Artikel ist eine Zusammenfassung eines Forschungsvorhabens, das an der Verkehrsfakultät der CVUT in Prag ausgeführt wurde und das sich als Ziel setzte, den bestehenden Zustand und das Potenzial des Eisenbahnnetzes von regionaler Bedeutung auf dem Gebiet der Tschechischen Republik allseitig zu analysieren. Der Artikel beschreibt die für die Analyse der wirtschaftlichen Bilanz und für die Analyse des Beförderungspotenzials benutzten Methoden und die Multikriterienbewertung der technischen Parameter der besagten Strecken. Weiter legt der Artikel die Charakteristiken des erwähnten Segments des tschechischen Eisenbahnnetzes in allen geforschten Bereichen vor. In seinem Schlussteil schlägt der Artikel eine gesamte Kategorisierung eines Streckenabschnittes von regionaler Bedeutung in Gruppen laut seinen technisch-ökonomischen Parametern und seinem Potenzial der Beförderungsnachfrage vor.

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Britain’s national railway network: fit for purpose in the 21st century?

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

Are rail charges connected to costs?

Are rail charges connected to costs?

A Probabilistic Model of the Economic Risk to Britain's Railway Network from Bridge Scour During Floods

Evaluation of Potential of Regional Railway Lines

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