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:
  • Railroad transportation
  • Public transit
  • Rail transit
  • Transportation planning
  • Evaluation and assessment
  • Impacts
• 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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• Format:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31537/dot_31537_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.14 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2a3f2e9566a9684189b96be4a9f08b84388e13d27116d2f2ba87a5cdf027efd2