scholarly journals The purpose of long-distance passenger trains in public passenger transport system

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
Martin Vojtek ◽  
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Borna Abramovic ◽  
Martin Kendra ◽  
Vladislav Zitrický
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Rail Transport ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Transport Accessibility ◽  
Passenger Trains ◽  
Qualitative Factors

Current economical trends create new requirements to population mobility. People always travel for many reasons and they are very dependent on the system of passenger transport. There are several modes of transport, but passengers mostly use road and rail transport. Passenger transport system is influenced by many qualitative factors with various impacts. Long-distance passenger trains have got significant position on the transport market, what represents demand and offer in the passenger transport system. These trains connects far places therefore transport accessibility in the region or country is better and passenger railway transport is more attractive for traveling public. This article is focused on main purpose of these trains from operational and economical point of view.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT OF OFF-STREET TRANSPORT AND ITS ROLE IN TERRITORIAL SYSTEMS

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-554
Author(s):  
P.G. Ataev
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Transport Accessibility ◽  
Territorial Systems

The development of agglomerations is connected with the solution of issues of the allocation of territorial zones and ensuring their transport accessibility. The goal of the article is to determine the place of suburban-urban railway transport in the system of urban passenger transport from the point of view of geography. The object of the study was off-street transport of agglomerations. In the framework of the work, the following tasks were solved: a classification of public transport was carried out, factors determining the possibility of using various types of transport were identified and their ranking was performed. The analysis of modern scientific literature and normative acts has revealed contradictions between the concept of “off-street” adopted in the legislation and the established tradition of applying this term to railway transport. The following factors of the efficiency of off-street transport were identified: increasing the speed of correspondence, ensuring the coherence of other modes of transport, servicing the entire territory of the agglomeration.

scholarly journals Redefining of the Rijeka Railway Junction

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 443-451
Author(s):  
Siniša Vilke ◽  
Livia Šantić ◽  
Matija Glad
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Transport System ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Container Terminal ◽  
Rail Transport ◽  
The Other ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
Cargo Transport

This paper presents and analyses the redefined Rijeka railway junction. The redefined concept of the Rijeka railroad hub in the context of port and railway interdependence dictates the need to find the accommodation of cargo transport to peripheral locations such as: Krasica, Kukuljanovo, Bakar, Ivani, Bršica and capacity for the island of Krk, while passenger transport would be implemented in the urban area. The most important projects related to Rijeka rail transport system are the construction of a new line of high efficiency between Zagreb and Rijeka, and a new railroad through the tunnel of Učka which will link the ports of Rijeka, Koper and Trieste. Together with the reconstruction of cargo stations Rijeka and Brajdica, an extension of the other tracks on the railroads Škrljevo-Rijeka and Rijeka-Opatija/Matulji should be performed as well as the construction of Krasica, Ivani, Tijani and Vrgljevo stations. The construction includes a multipurpose bridge to the Island of Krk and a railway line to the new container terminal as well as the new railway bypass to “elevation 200”. KEY WORDS: Rijeka railway junction, railway transport system, railway transport, Port of Rijeka

scholarly journals Proposal for the Evaluation of the Stability Level of Periodic Timetable in Terms of Operation and Infrastructure

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Lukáš Čechovič ◽  
Adrián Šperka ◽  
Jozef Gašparík
Keyword(s):  
Rail Transport ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Practical Point ◽  
Railway Networks ◽  
Transport Path ◽  
The Stability

Abstract The introduction of tact timetable in rail passenger transport is currently a new evolving trend that increases the efficiency of rail transport. This article seeks to contribute in this area of the issue and thus to raise and improve this system of organizing transport in railway transport. The aim is to propose a methodology that assesses the level of stability of tact timetable based on operational and infrastructural factors. The methodology identifies operational-infrastructural factors that affect the stability and reliability of tact timetable. Using scientific methods, it presents the method of their quantification and determination of the weights of these factors, which evaluate the line sections and transport points of the examined transport path. From a practical point of view, the methodology is generally tact applicable to other European railway networks. In the final part of the work, this methodological procedure is applied in the form of model examples for various transport path.

scholarly journals Proposal of Traffic Service Rationalization on Zvolen – Šahy Railway Line

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Jozef Gašparík ◽  
Milan Dedík ◽  
Martin Vojtek ◽  
Adrián Šperka
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Transport Characteristic ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
Railway Passenger Transport ◽  
Passenger Trains ◽  
Railway Passenger

AbstractIncreasing population mobility and current trend of creating integrated passenger transport systems are opportunities for finding new possibilities to rationalization the railway passenger transport on those lines, where are no passenger trains or where the traffic service is not optimal nowadays. Precondition of reinstating the railway passenger transport is thorough potential passenger analysis, where there are actual geographic, demographic and transport characteristics of the region, where this line is situated. The contribution describes the passenger transport system, timetables rationalization and standards of traffic service in rail passenger transport. Consequently, according to these outputs and demographic and transport characteristic was proposed the rationalization of traffic service at Zvolen – Šahy transport route.

scholarly journals Methodology for calculation of minimum transfer time in the transport hub

2018 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 00015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Vojtek ◽  
Tomas Skrucany ◽  
Martin Kendra ◽  
Jan Ponicky
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Transfer Time ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Or Education ◽  
Passenger Vehicles ◽  
Main Requirement ◽  
Passenger Transportation ◽  
Railway Passenger Transport ◽  
Passenger Trains ◽  
Railway Passenger

The most important element in railway passenger transport is a customer – traveller, who requires the transport from one place to another. A basic precondition for accomplishing the main requirement – transport, is making the complete offer which provides not only transport, but also other associated services. Practically, there are many associated criteria of transport, for example safety, duration, price, reliability, comfort and complementary services. Passenger transport is generally considered as an activity, which arises as the consequence of spatial division of places, where people are in exact time and their need to move. Motivators for moving could be commuting – job or education, dealing with personal or working matters, travelling for vacation – hiking, sport, health, cultural and social facilities, visiting relatives and friends. Requirements for transport of passengers originate in the need to move, while the passenger transport is dependent on the willingness of travelling. In passenger transport, there are mostly individual passengers, so it is difficult to determine all transport requirements. The paper is focused on one of the key factors of passenger transportation - connectivity of trains. Connectivity of passenger trains and other means of transport can be distinguished also from temporal and spatial point of view. Temporal connectivity is such sequence of arrivals and departures of different passenger trains and other means of transport, which allows changing the different passenger vehicles easily in regard to necessary time. Spatial connectivity means the distance between two passenger vehicles, among which the passenger is moving. In the paper, there is described the general methodology for calculation of minimum transfer time in the railway station. Railway passenger station is some kind of transport hub – a starting and finishing point for flows of passengers. Passengers have the opportunity to change the train type from long-haul train to regional train or contrariwise or simply enter or leave the system of railway transport. In the methodology, all necessary aspects are taken into account.

scholarly journals Restrictions on regional passenger transport during epidemiological threat (COVID-19) – an example of the Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
Mateusz Smolarski
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Rail Transport ◽  
Quantitative Aspect ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Bus Service ◽  
Lower Silesia

The beginning of 2020 was associated with the appearance of the global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The spread of the epidemic caused the introduction of an epidemiological emergency in Poland in early March (on March 12). This resulted in reduced public transport, including regional rail transport. In Lower Silesia, this concerned regional and fast connections. The conducted analysis concerns regional connections and is based on exploration of the spatial and the quantitative aspect of these changes. The transport offer before and after the announcing of the epidemic was analysed. The results showed that most of the transport restrictions concerned the peripheries of the voivodeship (local routes). Agglomeration routes were much less affected by the restrictions. On some lines a decrease to less than 5 pairs of connections per day was recorded. Once the restrictions are removed, it may be a challenge to encourage passengers to use railways again. Despite the low number of connections on many routes, rail transport can still be considered as the basis of the transport system. This is due to the lack of an alternative bus service.

Identification of hazards related to human factors in the railway transport system

2019 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Iwona Karasiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Rail Transport ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
Railway Safety

The article presents the significance of the analysis of threats related to the human factor in the rail transport system. The place and role of the human factor in the Directive on railway safety is described. Railway incidents in 2010–2017 were analyzed in terms of events caused by the direct action of employees in positions related to the safety and conduct of railway traffic. Methods that infrastructure managers and rail operators can use to correctly define the place and role of individual work posts in the organization and their impact on rail traffic safety are indicated. In addition, the article proposes a procedure for identifying threats in the area of the human factor, the interfaces associated with the work position of the traffic dispatcher are defined.

scholarly journals Position of railway passenger transport companies on current liberalized transport market

2018 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 00020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdenka Záhumenská ◽  
Martin Vojtek ◽  
Jozef Gašparík
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Market Liberalization ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Passenger Transportation ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Railway Passenger Transport ◽  
Railway Passenger

Market liberalization is a great contemporary trend in many fields of economy. Liberalized transport market, where the transport demand is meeting with transport offer, is evolving dynamically. Private railway passenger operators want to increase their market share together with national railway passenger transport companies therefore the quality of passenger transportation is getting higher, which positively influences the attractiveness of railway passenger transport. The article is focused on these current trends of liberalization in railway passenger transport market. From operational and economical point of view, there are described some ways, how to make the railway passenger transport system more effective and make the entire transport system more attractive for traveling public.

scholarly journals Improving On-Time Performance for Long-Distance Passenger Trains Operating on Freight Routes

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl D. Martland
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Track Maintenance ◽  
Time Performance ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Passenger Trains ◽  
Maintenance Requirements

This paper discusses on-time performance (OTP) for long-distance passenger trains operating over tracks that are owned and operated by freight railroads. OTP is addressed primarily from the point of view of the host railroad. A brief literature review identifies practices that are commonly used by railroads and other modes to develop and implement achievable schedules. Analysis of travel time, train delay and other data for Amtrak trains operating on CSXT's I95 Corridor documents actual levels of reliability and the primary causes of poor OTP. Comparison of performance for passenger trains and various classes of freight trains demonstrates that Amtrak trains operate much faster and more reliably than CSXT's trains. Potential means of improving the OTP of Amtrak trains are discussed. While providing high quality track with sufficient capacity is the long-run solution for upgrading OTP, a short-run solution is to base schedules on past performance ("experience-based scheduling"). After Amtrak increased the schedule of the Auto Train by one hour in 2006, OTP improved from less than 10% in early 2006 to 82% for the first half of 2008. Analysis of the travel time distributions of the other long-distance Amtrak trains operating on CSXT's I95 Corridor from 2004 to 2008 indicates that a similar schedule increase would also have brought these other trains close to Amtrak's goal of 80% OTP. Schedules that reflect track maintenance requirements and other known seasonal and weekly factors would allow further improvements in measured OTP. Additional measures of performance concerning the probability and extent of late arrivals would be beneficial to travelers in planning their trips.

scholarly journals Dostępność dzienna w układzie miast wojewódzkich w Polsce = Daily accessibility among Poland’s voivodeship cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-265
Author(s):  
Ewa Garbacz ◽  
Tomasz Komornicki ◽  
Karol Kowalczyk
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Rail Transport ◽  
Network Configuration ◽  
Transport Accessibility ◽  
Synthetic Index ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Car Travel ◽  
Planning Concept ◽  
Insight Into

Daily accessibility as one of the measures of transport accessibility is an indicator that can be used, i.a. as relations between a given area’s transport system and spatial planning are analysed. The indicator provides a broad field for assessing the effectiveness of the transport system and spatial planning operating at a given time, while simultaneously indicating directions by which these may be improved. The main aim of the work detailed here was to assess whether and to what extent the current road system, as well as the layout of railway lines and connections, creates positive conditions for the development of the network configuration of Polish metropolises. In terms of application, the aim is to assess the level of implementation of the polycentric metropolitan network referred to in the KPZK 2030 document (i.e. Poland’s National Spatial Planning Concept through to the year 2030). The paper thus presents an attempt to determine the potential for mutual functional and spatial connections to be established or reinforced within Poland’s system of voivodeship cities. That estimation of potential was based on analysis of daily (i.e. within-the-day) accessibility among the cities in question. The measurement of daily accessibility was based on the time of individual (car) travel or that involving rail transport. The analysis further included three variants for travel within the space of a given day (i.e. with 4, 6 or 8 hours available at the destination). This allowed for the development of a synthetic index of daily accessibility by which to characterise selected voivodship cities, which might then be classified in terms of their potential for establishing functional and spatial interrelatedness. The results of the research conducted offer a broad insight into the potential for selected voivodship cities to benefit from participation in the inter-agglomeration network. Moreover, thanks to our research, it was possible to identify peripheral areas (in which development potential was relatively lower) – which therefore require the kind of additional activation and compensatory action foreseen by KPZK 2030. Such actions should certainly relate to improved transport accessibility among the system’s largest centres.

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