Railway Infrastructure Capacity in the Open Access Condition: Case Studies on SŽDC and ŽSR Networks

Abstract

The railway sector in the European Union is changing. The goal of EU transport policy is to liberalize the market for rail transport services, dismantle national transport monopolies, and open competitive public tenders to other train operators. For the optimal utilization of the railway infrastructure capacity, it is necessary to calculate it properly in terms of open access to the infrastructure. At present, many important corridors are at full capacity. Therefore, in order to increase the number of freight trains, it is necessary to implement certain measures to increase the track line capacity. Infrastructure capacity research is part of the complexity of the capacity management processes. A progressive approach to define it means to describe the estimating process of railway infrastructure capacity including progressive capacity allocation approaches as a key part of capacity management. The aim is to define the processes of the infrastructure capacity management on which depends the quality level of operational traffic management as well the efficiency of the traffic flow on the infrastructure. The partial objective is to investigate the impact of systematic train paths in periodic timetables on rail infrastructure capacity. The proposals fully respect the EU transport policy.

Does Physio-environmental Determinism Influence the Infrastructural Development of Railway Stations?

“…Our study has observed that railway infrastructure significantly varies from station to station due to differential spatial organisations. Similar kind of result has been found in the work of Palin et al (2021), Besinovic (2020), Gašparík and Cempírek (2019), Funk et al (2019), Gasparik et al (2018), Kasraian et al (2016), , Lindfeldt (2015), Debrezion et al (2007). After critical discussion on the findings it can be asserted that comparatively less complex physio-environmental location has relatively better railway infrastructure.…”

Ecological solutions for freight trains

“…The travel time is directly proportional to the vehicle's output (class Eem 923: 1 500 kW in electric mode, conventional diesel locomotive: ca. 700-800 kW) [8,9].…”

Possibilities for Shifting Goods from Road to Rail Freight Transport in the Czech Republic

“…On defined lines with international freight traffic, a line category with a weight per axle of 25t is required, but to increase their performance, raising the limit up to 30t is being considered. The existing maximum length of freight trains of 650 m will be extended to 850 m. This will promote greater efficiency in rail freight transport [10,11].…”