The Swedish Railway Deregulation Path

Robustness in Swedish Railway Traffic Timetables

A tendency seen for quite some time in the Swedish railway network is a growing demand for capacity which no longer can be accommodated. This causes congestion and delays, and the relationships between the trains and how they affect eachother are significantly harder to overview and analyse. Railway traffic timetables normally contain margins to make them robust, and enable trains to recover fr...

Reliability Analysis of Switches and Crossings – A Case Study in Swedish Railway

It is reported that switches and crossings (S&C) are one of the subsystems that cause the most delays on Swedish Railways while accounting for at least 13% of maintenance costs. It is the main reason for choosing to base this study on this subsystem. Intelligent data processing allows understanding the real reliability characteristics of the assets to be maintained. The first objective of this...

The Microbiology of Railway Tracks Towards a Rational Use of Herbicides on Swedish Railways

Cederlund H. 2006. The microbiology of railway tracks – towards a rational use of herbicides on Swedish railways. Doctoral thesis. Swedish railways are regularly treated with herbicides in order to keep the track beds free from weeds. However, finding appropriate preparations and dosages that provide a good weed control but that are still environmentally acceptable, has proven to be difficult. ...

The Effects of Deregulation

Political Ideology and Stigmatizing Attitudes Toward Depression: The Swedish Case

Background Stigmatizing attitudes toward persons with mental disorders is a well-established and global phenomenon often leading to discrimination and social exclusion. Although previous research in the United States showed that conservative ideology has been related to stigmatizing attitudes toward mental disorders, there is reason to believe that this mechanism plays a different role in...