Decision-Making Process in the Case of Insufficient Rail Capacity

Autor: Vladislav Zitricky, Lenka Černá, Anna Dolinayova
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Waiting time
Rail line
020209 energy
lcsh:TJ807-830
Geography
Planning and Development
lcsh:Renewable energy sources
ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS
02 engineering and technology
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
Track (rail transport)
Transport engineering
ComputerApplications_MISCELLANEOUS
0502 economics and business
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
insufficient capacity
Decision-making
lcsh:Environmental sciences
lcsh:GE1-350
050210 logistics & transportation
decision-making process
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants
InformationSystems_INFORMATIONSYSTEMSAPPLICATIONS
Transport policy
05 social sciences
shipping costs
Investment (macroeconomics)
lcsh:TD194-195
rail infrastructure
Business
Rail infrastructure
Zdroj: Sustainability
Volume 12
Issue 12
Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 5023, p 5023 (2020)
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su12125023
Popis: One of the main priorities of transport policy in the EU is to take measures to support railway transport as an environmentally friendly transport mode. An interesting challenge for a railway transport operation is represented with cost items for its operation. This problem is exacerbated if transport flows are routed through a congested railway infrastructure. If some or all transport takes place on congested rail infrastructure, the carrier&rsquo
s costs increase, which may ultimately lead to withdrawal from the market. The article deals with the impact of insufficient capacity on the rail carrier&rsquo
s costs. We used a pre-cost calculation methodology to calculate the rail carrier&rsquo
s additional costs due to the insufficient railway network capacity based on detailed calculation of train costs and proposed a methodology for carrier decision-making in case of insufficient rail infrastructure capacity. The case study showed that the use of a diversion track in case of insufficient planned rail line capacity may not be advantageous for carriers, even with a longer waiting time for capacity to be released. One of the ways to eliminate the negative effects of congested railway infrastructure is investment in the increase of its capacity.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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