Die neue Bundesregierung hält an dem verkehrspolitischen Ziel einer Steigerung des Verkehrs auf der Schiene fest. Dazu sieht sie im Koalitionsvertrag neben einer weiteren Erhöhung der Investitionen in die Schieneninfrastruktur auch eine prioritäre Ausrichtung der Finanzierung auf den...

Die neue Bundesregierung hält an dem verkehrspolitischen Ziel einer Steigerung des Verkehrs auf der Schiene fest. Dazu sieht sie im Koalitionsvertrag neben einer weiteren Erhöhung der Investitionen in die Schieneninfrastruktur auch eine prioritäre Ausrichtung der Finanzierung auf den...

Traffic management is crucial for improving the punctuality and reliability of train operations, enabling train operating companies to maintain their competitiveness and further increases the share and profits. We study the train rescheduling problem with the inclusion of passenger choices and...

Competitive passenger rail can help workers access new or better jobs. This paper studies the wider economic impacts on local unemployment of the liberalized passenger rail between Ostrava, the third-biggest city in the Czech Republic, and Prague, its capital. The local impacts are estimated at...

Im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr bestehen trotz Bahnstrukturreform weiterhin hohe Markteintrittsbarrieren. Der Wettbewerb im Nah- und Schienengüterverkehr ist im Vergleich dazu bereits besser in Gang gekommen. Die Autoren schlagen einen innovativen Regulierungsansatz vor, um den intramodalen...

The research aims to find the users “Passenger Satisfaction towards Railway services to analyze the social economic profile and level of satisfaction. The sample required for the study has been collected through structured questionnaire. The 100 sample size for the study taken. So as per...

In research and practice, public transportation planning is executed in a series of steps, which are often divided into the strategic, the tactical, and the operational planning phase. Timetables are normally designed in the tactical phase, taking into account a given line plan, safety...

Railway stations are centers of mass accumulation of people. Additional regulations change the intensity of the flow of visitors and the time of entering the station. Delays become an essential factor affecting the perceived satisfaction with all services at stations. This paper analyzes the...

High-speed rail is a new mode of intercity passenger transportation. We review the history of high-speed rail development of the United States (US) and compare it with that of peer countries. With the rapid progress of HSR and the successful competition with cars and air travel between medium...

The social costs of pollution and climate change hinge critically on humans' ability to adapt. Based on transaction records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid expansion of high-speed railways (HSR) facilitates the...

Railway passenger opinions' have been lot of importance for monitoring, enhancing the existing services and understanding the current needs of the people. The existing practice involves the people to collect the data, respond to the complaints and forwarding to the concerned heads. Now the...

The situation of long-distance in Europe rail has faced different developments at literally different speeds since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Relevant central European parts of the OEM Corridor (e. g. Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary) first suffered a considerable decline in...

This study aims to suggest using the interpretation type of deployment of quality function deployment (QFD) as a methodology to understand the passengers’ needs when they situate in the train cars of urban rail, using the East Rail Line (ERL) in Hong Kong as a case study. The result shows that...

Timetabling for railway services often aims at optimizing travel times for passengers. At the same time, restricting assumptions on passenger behavior and passenger modeling are made. While research has shown that passenger distribution on routes can be modeled with a discrete choice model, this...

Modern metropolitan areas involve large concentrations of economic activity and the transport of millions of people each day between their residence and workplace. We use the revolution in transport technology from the invention of steam railways, newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data...

Using newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data for London from 1801-1921, we show that the invention of the steam railway led to the first large-scale separation of workplace and residence. We show that a class of quantitative urban models is remarkably successful in explaining this...

The economic growth of a country is mostly depends on the infrastructure and construction available in their area. Substructure link the peoples to services, markets and jobs and helps people to live healthy and productive lives. Transport facility is an important aspect of infrastructure...