Print Email Facebook Twitter Interoperability in Rail Systems Title Interoperability in Rail Systems: The Effect of Interoperability on the Performance of an Urban Rail System Author Dammers, Nicoline (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering; TU Delft Marine and Transport Technology) Contributor Duinkerken, M.B. (mentor) Koopman, David (mentor) Negenborn, R.R. (graduation committee) Cats, O. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Marine Technology | Transport Engineering and Logistics Date 2018-10-04 Abstract The current rail infrastructure is used intensively in and around large cities, several functional network levels can be defined within the rail infrastructure. The combination of different network levels puts pressure on the available infrastructure capacity and investments are needed to increase the infrastructure capacity. The definition between different networks is fading and will become less important in the future and it can be classified in a different way. Interoperability is a term that deals with the sharing of rail infrastructure. This thesis describes the possibilities of interoperability between metro and train networks. The Noord/Zuidlijn metro-line in the city of Amsterdam is used as a case study and its Key Performance Indicators were assessed both before and after interoperability was experimentally applied and tested. The interoperability that is the subject of this paper entails the continuation of the Noord/Zuidlijn metro onto the ProRail network from station Amsterdam Zuid via station Amstelveenseweg and Schiphol to Hoofddorp. Currently nowhere in the Netherlands situations occur where a metro line continues its path on the mainline rail network as described in this thesis. This research outlines how interoperability influences the performance of a public rail transit system if the technical difficulties that obstruct this interoperability can be overcome. Subject InteroperabilityUrban Rail SystemAccessibilityMetroTrainNoord/ZuidlijnNetwork Demand ModellingGenetic Algorithm To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9736be02-03c4-4f7d-a72c-b77a9c6713f6 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Nicoline Dammers Files PDF 2018_TEL_8270_Interoperab ... Thesis.pdf 31.65 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9736be02-03c4-4f7d-a72c-b77a9c6713f6/datastream/OBJ/view