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Collection and Use of Railway Track Performance and Maintenance Data
KTH, Tidigare Institutioner (före 2005), Infrastruktur och samhällsplanering.
Queensland University of Technology.
Queensland University of Technology.
Queensland University of Technology.
2004 (Engelska)Ingår i: New Horizons for Rail: Proceedings of CORE (Conference On Railway Engineering) 2004, 2004Konferensbidrag, Publicerat paper (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

There is increasing pressure for track managers to optimise the mix of infrastructure maintenance and renewal activities so that better performance can be extracted from the asset at lower operating costs. Track related data is usually collected for several purposes with different players (eg: track owners, rail operators and regulators and funding agencies) requiring data at different levels of detail and about different matters. The paper reports on a review of data collection procedures as part of a project funded by the Rail CRC, aimed at "Enhancing the Optimisation of Maintenance/Renewal." The paper also reports on preliminary outcomes of an international survey of current practice with respect to track related data collection and use.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
2004.
Nyckelord [en]
railway, data, maintenance, data collection, data use, survey
Nationell ämneskategori
Teknik och teknologier
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-7189OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-7189DiVA, id: diva2:12124
Konferens
Conference on Railway Engineering, 20-23 June 2004, Darwin, Australia
Anmärkning
QC 20100622Tillgänglig från: 2007-05-28 Skapad: 2007-05-28 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-06-26Bibliografiskt granskad
Ingår i avhandling
1. Empirical Essays on Railway Infrastructure Costs in Sweden
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Empirical Essays on Railway Infrastructure Costs in Sweden
2007 (Engelska)Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]

The subject of this thesis concerns pricing the use of transport infrastructure. We are empirically investigating the relationship between railway traffic volumes and infrastructure management costs. More specifically, we are interested in estimating the change in infrastructure management costs from marginal variations in traffic volumes, i.e. to estimate the marginal cost of railway infrastructure wear and tear. Both Europe and Sweden have moved towards a marginal cost based transport pricing policy, thus driving the need for more empirical work on rail infrastructure costs to underpin the level of a wear and tear charge. The thesis consists of five papers. In paper I, the data situation for planning railway maintenance and renewal is surveyed internationally. The survey indicates that most infrastructure managers are still in the data gathering phase, rather than ready to use modern computerised planning tools to make sound decisions in the field of maintenance and renewal. In paper II, we investigate the data situation for infrastructure cost analysis in Sweden. A panel data set that consists of cost, traffic and infrastructure information is created. The data covers 1999-2002 and contains almost 190 annual observations. Three main cost categories are identified; infrastructure operation, maintenance and renewal. This data is used for estimations of cost functions in paper II, III and V. Econometric techniques are applied for this purpose, with several different model specifications. In paper II, the method of pooled ordinary least squares (POLS) is applied. In paper III, we turn to unobserved effects models to exploit data heterogeneity. Finally in paper V, a dynamic generalised method of moments estimator is used to explore a potential dynamic cost dependency. The main findings are that the POLS approach, which has been used in similar studies in Europe recently, is rejected in favour of fixed effects estimation for this data. Furthermore, we also reject the idea of regression analysis to capture marginal rail renewal costs. In paper IV, we suggest an analytical expression combined with survival analysis of rail ages to estimate marginal renewal costs. We derive elasticities with respect to output as well as marginal costs for the different cost categories, and find that the current charge for wear and tear in Sweden is well below these new estimates. This opens up for increased, marginal cost based rail infrastructure wear and tear charges, which would reduce the financial burden on Swedish tax-payers.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Stockholm: KTH, 2007
Serie
Trita-TEC-PHD, ISSN 1653-4468 ; 07:002
Nyckelord
Railways, Infrastructure, Marginal Costs, Maintenance, Renewal, Econometrics, Panel Data, Survival Analysis
Nationell ämneskategori
Samhällsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4398 (URN)978-91-85539-18-5 (ISBN)
Disputation
2007-06-07, Sal D3, KTH, Lindstedtsvägen 5, Stockholm, 10:00
Opponent
Handledare
Anmärkning
QC 20100622Tillgänglig från: 2007-05-28 Skapad: 2007-05-28 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-06-26Bibliografiskt granskad

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