Development of Railway Capacity Cost and Apportionment Model

In 1991 the European Community issued regulations for liberalizing the European railway market by introducing open access. While open access has only been partly implemented so far, the concept of railway path pricing has been well established and is used throughout Europe. Railway path prices should help pay for construction, maintenance and operation of railway infrastructure and help guide transport decisions. Railway path pricing systems are continuously under development and capacity aspects are becoming increasingly important. In this research a capacity based cost allocation method was developed and evaluated using case study data. This showed the impact of three common allocation schemes for apportioning the costs of lost capacity. The paper presents results of this evaluation and outlines whether and how such a capacity-based cost allocation method could be introduced realistically in a path pricing system.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AR040(1) Rail Capacity.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Frank, Patrick
  • Weidmann, Ulrich Alois
  • Nash, Andrew
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
• Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access; Cost allocation; Market development; Mathematical models; Pricing; Railroad transportation
• Identifier Terms: European Community
• Uncontrolled Terms: Rail access pricing; Rail capacity
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Subject Areas: Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01478609
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 13-1206
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 16 2013 4:49PM