Performance analysis of railway infrastructure and operations

Performance analysis of railway infrastructure and operations

Hansen, I.A.
Wiggenraad, P.B.L.
Wolff, J.W.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Transport and Planning

2013-12-31

Research on performance assessment of railway networks and companies has been stimulated by the European policy of deregulation of transport markets, the opening of national railway networks and markets to new entrants and separation of infrastructure and train operation. Recent international benchmarking studies of railways based on statistical data compiled by UIC show a considerable variation of scope concerning the input and period of data analysis, while the selected output performance measures are very limited. A more comprehensive approach for benchmark analysis is proposed, which includes relevant technical and economic key performance criteria and indicators for assessing the transport and traffic output, effectiveness, productivity, and efficiency performance of infrastructure management and train operations respectively. The assessment methods consist of standard parametric (regression) analysis of empirical technical and commercial data for the year 2009. The detailed results of a recent benchmark analysis for 11 mid-size European railway networks and undertakings are reported

infrastructure management
operations
effectiveness
efficiency
benchmarking

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WCTR 2013: 13th World Conference on Transport Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15-18 July 2013

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