Design of Hybrid Rail Services on Conventional and High-Speed Lines

Comparing environmental impact of conventional and high speed rail

Dispatch coordination between high-speed and conventional rail systems

Cross-line trains, as a link between high-speed and conventional rail networks, will increase the complexity of transport organization and lead to significant challenges in dispatch coordination between the two systems. Based on the characteristics of high-speed transport organization, this paper deals with the necessity of dispatch coordination between high-speed and conventional lines from th...

A model for the coordination between high-speed railway lines and conventional rail lines in a railway passenger transportation corridor

With the construction of high-speed railway lines in China, there are growing concerns about the rational transport cooperation between high-speed railway lines and conventional rail lines. A rational transport cooperation scheme can improve railway capacity utilization, train speed, service and the organization quality of railway transportation. The previous research mainly focused on the aspe...

Price Elasticity of Demand in the High Speed Rail Lines

Reduced travel time, regional cohesion, economic development and environmental benefits were some of the reasons given to develop the High Speed network in Spain, the largest in Europe. Ever since the opening of the first High Speed line in 1992, High Speed Rail (HSR) have become a new travelling experience despite the fact that in the recent years several voices have raised concerns over a lac...

Headways on High Speed Lines

Some parts of the European high speed line network are near saturation. ETCS-L2, the so called Level 2 of the European train control system, standard for providing signalling and automatic train protection (ATP) on new high speed lines (HSL), offers a pretty good level of capacity. However, even with the mobile block system provided by ETCS-Level 3, it seems quite impossible for the practical c...