A MODEL EXAMPLE OF RAIL FREIGHT OPERATIONS

A model of rail freight operations is described which is designed to estimate costs of carrying a range of railway traffic. The model also examines the impact on these costs of changes in railway operating policies. The model, known as Railcost, developed for the Public Transport Commission of New South Wales, is intended to enable operating and marketing strategies to be tested e.g. The effect of replacing branch-line services with road services, or the effect of abandoning all low-volume, wagon-load traffic.

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• Authors:
  • BULLOCK, R G
  • WARDROP, A W
  • GALBRAITH, R A
• Publication Date: 1981-1-2

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 7
• Serial:
  • Transport: Research Journal of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
  • ISSN: 1648-4142
  • EISSN: 1648-3480

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abandonment; Analysis; Calculation; Costs; Economic factors; Economics; Forecasting; Freight handling; Freight transportation; Mathematical models; Operating costs; Operations; Planning; Railroad traffic; Railroad transportation; Traffic density; Transportation
• Identifier Terms: New South Wales Government Railways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Haulage; Light density lines; Operations planning
• ITRD Terms: 6464: Calculation; 224: Cost; 263: Economics of transport; 132: Forecast; 741: Goods traffic; 6473: Mathematical model; 5149: Mechanical handling; 221: Operating costs; 1173: Rail bound transport
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00334725
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 9 1981 12:00AM