ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE EUROPEAN RAILWAYS OF TOMORROW

The continually increasing traffic demands in passenger and goods traffic call for integrated planning of investments where, in addition to economic criteria applying to individual undertakings, socio-economic criteria as well as criteria outside the sphere of economics must be taken into account. By making the most of the possibilities of improved organization and rationalisation as well as of the potentialities, due to track guidance, of automation and applied cybernetics, it will still be possible to achieve considerable improvements in the performance of railway transport which also has environmental advantages. In high-speed long-distance passenger traffic, for instance, the attractiveness of the service (resulting, inter alia, in additional traffic generated by the increased speed) will have a decisive bearing on capacity utilization and, therefore, on productivity.

• Corporate Authors:

  International Railway Congress Association

  17-21 rue de Louvrain
  1000 Brussels,   Belgium 
• Authors:
  • HEIMERL, G
• Publication Date: 1974-3

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 207-210
• Serial:
  • RAIL INTERNATIONAL
  • Issue Number: 3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Capital investments; Economics; Governments; High speed rail; Network analysis (Planning); Planning; Policy; Transportation; Transportation planning
• Old TRIS Terms: Government planning; Government policies
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00057506
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Union of Railways
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 28 1974 12:00AM