How to boost the efficiency of your railway - without expanding your network : the answers to 3 major challenges in passenger rail operations.

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• Corporate Creators:
  Quintiq
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Evaluation And Assessment Impacts Public Transit Railroad Transportation Rail Transit Transportation Planning
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Quintiq
• Abstract:
  Passenger rail may have taken a back seat due to
  
  the emergence of personal transportation and
  
  the democratization of air travel in the last few
  
  decades, but it is now back with a vengeance. Public transportation ridership in the United States
  
  has increased by 34% between 1995 and 2012, bringing
  
  passenger numbers to levels not seen since 1957.1
  
  Over
  
  1.65 billion passengers travelled by rail in Great Britain
  
  between 2014 and 2015, an increase of 4.2% from the
  
  year before.2
  
  The demand is expected to double over
  
  the next 30 years.3
  
  Japan’s newest bullet train line has
  
  ferried 9 million passengers between Tokyo and the
  
  Hokuriku region in its first 12 months of operations —
  
  exceeding initial expectations by 3 million passengers.
  
  Unfortunately, existing railway systems — built
  
  decades ago — are struggling to handle the demand
  
  of railway passengers. These are some of the
  
  challenges that threaten to grind the railway industry
  
  to a screeching halt:
  
  Limited options to expand railway infrastructure
  
  New projects or expansions to existing projects can
  
  end up taking far too long to get approved. Even if
  
  approval is obtained, there’s still the matter of battling
  
  through opposition from political interests and the
  
  surrounding community.
  
  Aging equipment and rolling stock
  
  As an asset, your network is a relatively fixed structure.
  
  With the problem of aging equipment and rolling
  
  stock, fleet and mechanical issues are bound to
  
  become more frequent. There will be less flexibility in
  
  building timetables and fleet plans, and the passenger
  
  experience will suffer as a result.
  
  Ever more complex labor rules and regulations
  
  Making a crew plan is a complex endeavor. Planners
  
  are faced with the daunting task of creating an
  
  optimal plan that must take into account mandatory
  
  rest periods, hours of service limits, individual shift
  
  preferences and union agreements.
  
  
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  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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