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Rail Cargo on the Lisbon-Madrid High-Speed Rail Line: an assessment of feasibility
Tese de doutoramento do Programa de Doutoramento em Sistemas de Transporte apresentada ao Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra ; This thesis presents an application to deal with the introduction of containerized cargo on the high-speed rail line operations between Lisbon and Madrid. The future rail line is a large, rigid and complex system with a long cycle of operation. Therefore, initial design needs to be carefully planned since once it’s installed it is very difficult and expensive to modify. In order to plan the infrastructure, its life cycle performance needs to be considered, given that the performance of the infrastructure depends not only on the initial project preparation and design but also on the maintenance and renewal decisions taken during the life cycle. In addition, in order to guarantee an optimal long-term result for the railway system, the effects of decisions taken should be methodically evaluated. Therefore, it is mandatory that all options (pre and post-operation) are evaluated in order to better serve demand and improve cargo investment efficiency. For different reasons until now, cargo was never a target revenue segment considered for high-speed rail lines development. The main reasons for this are the serious maintenance and operational constraints that occur when conventional freight-rail trains are ridded in a high-speed rail line, namely in terms of the track maintenance rehabilitation and safety for passengers. The current research aims to study the inclusion of ‘light rail-freight’ service on the Lisbon-Madrid high-speed rail connection in the investment evaluation through the use of dedicated rolling stock to deliver cargo. The expectation is to handle the extra capacity of the line derived from the passenger’s demand for introducing cargo services, aiming at a better efficiency for the investment. The analysis takes the passenger and cargo operations into consideration as well as all the impacts on the several potential ...
Rail Cargo on the Lisbon-Madrid High-Speed Rail Line: an assessment of feasibility
Tese de doutoramento do Programa de Doutoramento em Sistemas de Transporte apresentada ao Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra ; This thesis presents an application to deal with the introduction of containerized cargo on the high-speed rail line operations between Lisbon and Madrid. The future rail line is a large, rigid and complex system with a long cycle of operation. Therefore, initial design needs to be carefully planned since once it’s installed it is very difficult and expensive to modify. In order to plan the infrastructure, its life cycle performance needs to be considered, given that the performance of the infrastructure depends not only on the initial project preparation and design but also on the maintenance and renewal decisions taken during the life cycle. In addition, in order to guarantee an optimal long-term result for the railway system, the effects of decisions taken should be methodically evaluated. Therefore, it is mandatory that all options (pre and post-operation) are evaluated in order to better serve demand and improve cargo investment efficiency. For different reasons until now, cargo was never a target revenue segment considered for high-speed rail lines development. The main reasons for this are the serious maintenance and operational constraints that occur when conventional freight-rail trains are ridded in a high-speed rail line, namely in terms of the track maintenance rehabilitation and safety for passengers. The current research aims to study the inclusion of ‘light rail-freight’ service on the Lisbon-Madrid high-speed rail connection in the investment evaluation through the use of dedicated rolling stock to deliver cargo. The expectation is to handle the extra capacity of the line derived from the passenger’s demand for introducing cargo services, aiming at a better efficiency for the investment. The analysis takes the passenger and cargo operations into consideration as well as all the impacts on the several potential ...
Rail Cargo on the Lisbon-Madrid High-Speed Rail Line: an assessment of feasibility
2015-11-24
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