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International Journal of Railway Technology
ISSN 2049-5358
ISSN 2049-5358
IJRT,
Volume 2, Issue 2, 2013
A Framework for the Evaluation of the Performance of Railway Networks
M. Lu, G.L. Nicholson, F. Schmid, L. Dai, L. Chen and C. Roberts
Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
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M. Lu, G.L. Nicholson, F. Schmid, L. Dai, L. Chen, C. Roberts, "A Framework for the Evaluation of the Performance of Railway Networks", International Journal of Railway Technology, 2(2), 79-96, 2013. doi:10.4203/ijrt.2.2.4
Keywords: railway capacity, quality of service, performance evaluation.
Abstract
The infrastructure of many European railways is becoming increasingly saturated, while the operators face strong demands to increase services and carry more passengers and freight. The European FP7 project 'ON-TIME' is working to achieve a step change improvement in railway performance across Europe through improvements to timetabling, real time traffic management, operational management of large scale disruptions, and driver advisory systems. In this paper, the authors compare and analyse the existing capacity definitions and measures, and propose a new quality of service based concept as a generic framework for railway network performance. The key factors affecting quality of service are identified and analysed. Two examples show the influence of the systems properties on a performance indicator of resilience to delays.
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