Preliminary Study on the Hungarian Section of the 5th Pan-European Corridor

This paper will discuss how Hungarian national land use zoning regulations were revised in 2008. One element of the revisions was to allow for new or modified high speed rail alignment along the 5th Pan-European corridor. A contractor was retained to prepare a corridor study covering the territory from Venice to Budapest, including a travel demand model and forecasts. Three corridor alignment scenarios were considered, taking into account spatial constrains of built-in land and natural preserves in Hungary. One branch line toward Southern Hungary was also assumed in each scenario. The corridor between Hungary and Italy followed a single alignment. Decreased corridor travel time, improved service frequency and high quality rolling stock were envisioned. Current travel along the corridor is dominated by private vehicle due to the recent opening of motorway sections in Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia. A complex travel demand model was built to estimate future trips along the high speed rail corridor. The travel demand model included three components: current trip table calibration and validation, mode choice module and assignment module. Forecast methodology considered base travel demand growth, and mode shift from air and road transport newly generated trips due to high speed rail service. The forecasted results showed significant future increase in rail travel between Italy and Hungary, as well as domestic travel within Hungary, creating new trips as well as significant shift from air and road trips. Railway volumes doubled, and in sections close to Budapest, almost tripled due to improved service conditions. Decision on the actual alignment, nevertheless, is likely to be determined on political and environmental grounds.

• Record URL:
  • https://aetransport.org/past-etc-papers/conference-papers-pre-2009/conference-papers-2010
• Corporate Authors:

  Association for European Transport (AET)

  1 Vernon Mews, Vernon Street, West Kensington
  London W14 0RL,    
• Authors:
  • Kelen, Csaba
  • Feher, Gergely
• Conference:
  • European Transport Conference, 2010
  • Location: Glasgow Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Date: 2010-10-11 to 2010-10-13
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Bibliography; Maps; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: European Transport Conference, 2010 Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; High speed rail; Modal shift; Mode choice; Railroad traffic; Railroad transportation; Travel demand
• Geographic Terms: Balaton (Hungary); Venice (Italy)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01351681
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 14 2011 11:12AM