Shared Corridors, Strange Bedfellows: Understanding the Interface Between Freight and Passenger Rail

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Iacobacci
Keyword(s):  
Business Community ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Passenger Rail ◽  
Commuter Rail ◽  
Transit Times ◽  
Passenger Trains

This paper aims to clarify issues regarding shared rail corridors from a public policy perspective. It presents an overview of the relationships between the main stakeholders operating trains on North America’s rail networks: the railway companies that own the rail infrastructure and use it to provide freight services to shippers, and the passenger service operators—which are primarily public agencies that pay railway companies for track access and other services required to operate commuter and intercity passenger trains. The issues at stake are of concern to the policy and business community alike, because congestion on railway lines affects commuter rail, intercity passenger trains, and long-distance freight trains. In addition to the obvious economic costs of delays or less-reliable transit times in passenger and freight rail, respectively, adverse environmental and social impacts (e.g., higher accident rates on roadways) arise if either freight or passenger traffic shifts from rail to roadways. An earlier version of this paper was published by the Conference Board of Canada in September 2010.

scholarly journals On the Issue of Assigning Additional Stops for Long-Distance Passenger Trains within the Boundaries of the City of Moscow

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-197
Author(s):  
O. N. Pokusaev ◽  
A. E. Chekmarev ◽  
V. S. Evseev
Keyword(s):  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
Passenger Trains ◽  
The City

In many world’s most populous cities, railways are an integral part of urban transport systems. Commuter and intraurban passenger railway traffic is often and widely considered in this context. On the other hand, the constant growth in passenger traffic of longdistance trains, traditionally gravitating towards railway stations and adjacent urban transport hubs, including metro stations through which arriving passengers pass towards their final destinations in the city, requires search for new solutions to improve comfort of the trip for passengers, and to remove the excess load from the urban transit system. Considering the experience and features of organization of long-distance passenger railway traffic in various countries, the authors based on previous research suggests certain solutions regarding Moscow railway hub. To organize comfortable environment for passengers of all categories of trains, it is advisable to develop a balanced technology of train traffic within the Moscow junction, excluding overloading of individual elements of the transport system (in particular, of rail stations in the city center). The objective of the article is to analyze global experience in organizing traffic of long-distance passenger trains within the boundaries of large agglomerations and to develop proposals to organize additional stopping points for long-distance trains in various districts of Moscow, which will help reduce the load on central transport and interchange hubs, improve quality of transportation services for passengers, and develop the districts of Moscow and Moscow region adjacent to the new TIHs.

scholarly journals Passenger rail transport in Hungary

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Boheński
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Volume ◽  
Rail Transport ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rail Network ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Passenger Rail ◽  
Passenger Trains ◽  
Size And Structure

The purpose of the article was to examine the passenger rail transport in Hungary. The scope of the research included transport on the public and generally accessible rail network. In the article there has been analyzed the size and structure of the passenger rail transport and their share in total transportation in the years 2001-2014. There was also examined the traffic volume of passenger trains running during weekdays in 2015. Hungary is a country where the rail has one of the largest shares in service of the passenger traffic in Europe. In the analyzed period, the railways transported in this country over 140 million passengers per year (it has to be remembered that the population of that country was less than 10 millions). Despite the popularity of this type of transport in the analyzed period the number of the passenger rail transport has been decreased.

Analytical support to organization system of children transportation in long-distance trains

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 232-330
Author(s):  
A. V. Komissarov ◽  
E. A. Makarova ◽  
S. V. Muktepavel ◽  
I. A. Nestrakhov ◽  
I. N. Spesivtseva
Keyword(s):  
Time Of Arrival ◽  
Control Analysis ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Passenger Cars ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Destination Station ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Management Functions

Abstract. In modern conditions for passenger complex of Russian Railways, important tasks include improvement of transportation quality, maintenance of stable positions in a competitive environment and increasing demand. To address these issues, a customer-oriented approach is applied based on the segmentation of transport market in relation to certain groups of passengers. Performance of children's transportation is of particular relevance and social significance. Railways are charged with a huge range of work, including sale of travel documents, preparation and equipping of passenger cars, provision of food during the trip, instructing workers, ensuring security during the embarkation/disembarkation of passengers, etc. Children can travel as individually with accompanying persons and as part of organized groups. Processes of planning, organizing, monitoring the transportation of this age category of passengers are associated with the analysis of a large amount of reference and regulatory and reporting documentation. On the basis of the ACS “Express-3”, a program-analytical complex “Children's transportation” was developed and implemented, which allows to receive data at the regional and network levels in the operational (train number, day) and statistical (period of dates, month) modes. This information technology provides analytical support for key transportation management functions — planning, control, analysis. Planning of transportation of organized children's groups is carried out on the basis of a study of the dynamics of data on the number of applications received and travel documents issued, determining the routes of trains, periods of the highest intensity of passenger traffic, obtaining information about the stations of embarkation and disembarkation. To perform the functions of monitoring the embarkation and disembarkation at the destination station of groups of children, the employees involved receive information on the train number, car number, date and time of arrival, number of children in the group using the Children's Transportation software. For the analysis of transportation of children's age categories, a functional has been developed that ensures the construction of aggregated reporting based on trains data that completed the trip. Users receive reporting information in table form, including “strict” (designed according to the approved layout) and “flexible” forms (construction is performed according to specified parameters). Software and analytical complex is designed for managers and specialists of the passenger unit of the JSC “Russian Railways”, has a modular principle of increasing functionality and provides a solution to current problems in the system of organizing children's transport service.

scholarly journals A New Integrated Fuzzy Approach to Selecting the Best Solution for Business Balance of Passenger Rail Operator: Fuzzy PIPRECIA-Fuzzy EDAS Model

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slavko Vesković ◽  
Željko Stević ◽  
Darjan Karabašević ◽  
Snježana Rajilić ◽  
Sanjin Milinković ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Model ◽  
Fuzzy Evaluation ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Ticket Sales ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Passenger Rail ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Criteria Importance ◽  
Validation Tests ◽  
Selection Of

The analysis of operations of the passenger traffic operator in the Republic of Srpska (RS) showed that the volume of passenger transport has, for the last fifteen years, been in constant decline. It is of particular importance that the operator has, year after year, recorded a negative balance of business. The way out of the current unfavorable situation in the sector of passenger traffic is based on the application of Public Service Obligation (PSO) based on the Regulation 1370/2007. In order to solve the problems, seven realistically possible variants have been identified. This paper defines the criteria for selecting the best variant, as well as a new integrated fuzzy model for the selection of the best variant that will enable the operator to make a profit. To define the weights of criteria in this paper, we have used the fuzzy PIvot Pairwise RElative Criteria Importance Assessment (F-PIPRECIA) method, while for ranking and selection of the best variant, we have used the Fuzzy Evaluation based on Distance from Average Solution (F-EDAS) method. Results show that the seventh variant: “Increase in revenue from ticket sales and PSO services and reduction in costs“ is the best solution in current conditions. Validation tests are performed with different scenarios and approaches and show that the model is stable. A validity test was created consisting of variations in the significance of model input parameters, testing of reverse rank, applying the fuzzy Measurement Alternatives and Ranking according to the COmpromise Solution (F-MARCOS), fuzzy Simple Additive Weighing (F-SAW) method, and fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (F-TOPSIS). As a part of the validation tests, Spearman’s coefficient of correlation (SCC) in some scenarios is performed and weights of the criteria have been obtained using the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (F-AHP) and Full Consistency Method (FUCOM).

Perspective Directions of Logistics Activities Development of Long-Distance Railway Carriers

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
I. Procenko ◽  
D. Agafonov
Keyword(s):  
Government Support ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Passenger Rail ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Antitrust Regulation

Long-distance passenger rail transportation is a socially significant sector of the transport industry. The mobility of the population in the Russian Federation depends on the effective activities of transport carriers in this segment. However, every year in the system of state antitrust regulation, we can see the growing inefficiency of managerial decisions made in relation to the formed rules of the regulatory environment. This article presents an analysis of how the existing crisis in the economy caused by the spread of coronavirus infection affected the results of long-distance railway carriers activities. Given the predicted reduction in government support and economic activity, the authors conclude that it is necessary to increase the role of logistics in the financial and economic activities of transport carriers as one of the drivers for optimizing the financial condition of enterprises in the sector.

scholarly journals Train Delay Prediction using Machine Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1312-1315
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Recurrent Neural Networks ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Severe Weather ◽  
Average Error ◽  
Machine Learning Method ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Passenger Trains ◽  
Delay Prediction

Indian Railways operates both long distance and suburban passenger trains and freight services daily in the country. Trains get delayed frequently due to several reasons such as, severe weather conditions such as fog, traffic, signal failure, derailing of trains, accidents, etc, and this delay is propagated from station to station. If we can predict this in advance - it would be of great help for the commuters to plan their journey either for an earlier departure or postpone, and also lets railways to take measures to avoid delays further. In this paper, we used decision tree, a machine learning method used for predicting train delays, and Recurrent Neural Networks distinguished with various fixtures. For predicting train delays, Recurrent Neural networks with 2 layers and 22 neurons per each layer gave best results with an average error of 122 seconds

Implementation of the Comprehensive plan for the modernization and expansion of the railway infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-84
Author(s):  
MIKHAIL I. BESKHMELNITSYN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Central Ring ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
Railway Infrastructure ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Control Technologies

This article was prepared on the basis of a speech at the Gaidar Forum on January 16, 2020. It discusses the implementation of the Comprehensive plan for the modernization and expansion of the main infrastructure (CPMI). It has become a national project, distributed throughout the country, its results should be felt by the whole society. The author evaluates the successfully implemented projects for the development of the Central transport hub – the creation of the Moscow Central Ring and the Moscow Central Diameters. It is also about the revival of the Northern Sea Route, the development of the Baikal-Amur Mainline and the Trans-Siberian Railway. These tasks were set in the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2018 № 204 «On national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation for the period until 2024». The infrastructure upgrade will also affect long-distance passenger traffic, rolling stock. The author considers the conclusion of a contract with the Tver Carriage Works as an example of the modernization that has begun, notes that it provides for the renewal of the Tver Carriage Works itself. The author pays special attention to monitoring the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan for the modernization and expansion of the main infrastructure. It is indicated that when spending significant financial resources, it is extremely important to use modern control technologies, including BIM technologies. In addition, it is necessary to conduct work openly so that citizens can see in real time how national projects are being implemented.

scholarly journals Increasing Competitiveness of Passenger Rail Transportation Amid Organizational and Structural Transformations

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.3) ◽  
pp. 477
Author(s):  
U V.Myroshnychenko ◽  
I V.Motsna ◽  
N V.Gritsenko
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Critical Level ◽  
Structural Transformations ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Passenger Rail ◽  
Passenger Transportation

The decline in the volume of passenger traffic, the critical level of financial condition, and the depreciation of the material and technical base caused a significant economic downfall of the railway transport. The reorganization of structural units is intended to improve the quality of service provision, which affects the final demand of consumers, which influences the volume and profitability of passenger transportation. The author suggests applying the principles of the organization of the revenue account from passenger transportation, exempt from VAT, to reduce its loss ratio amid organizational and structural transformations during the reshaping of passenger transport segment. Increasing the competitiveness of passenger rail transportation will contribute to the economic development of the entire nation.  

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