Titel
Evaluation of rail services
Abstract
Rail services are needed for basic mobility especially
in rural areas and as a mean of reducing congestion and pollution
as part of an integrated transport policy in urban areas. In
transport expenditure generally there may be a number of options
open but in the case of train passenger services there are
essentially three: a) to retain the service in its present form,
b) to close the service, c) to rationalise the network (by
amending merging routes). The only railway likely to be
profitable is one where there is an intensive use with high load
factors. This is never going to be so for rural railways or on
large commuter rail systems. This places the evaluation of such
services into the political context.Therefore, it is important to
identify the impacts generated from rail services and to
determine the social value these represent. This information
provides an objective basis for decisions on public funding of
rail services.
The paper is planned as follows. Section 1 discusses the role of rail services. In section 2 examples of currently used evaluation techniques and criteria are described. This is followed by an examination of a potential approach to the evaluation of rail services, section 3. Section 4 discusses practical issues in relation to the approach outlined. Finally, section 5 summarises the findings and gives suggestions for further research.
Forfatter(e)
Prof. Stuart Cole (Director - Transport Research and
Consultancy, University of North London), Dr. Torben Holvad
(Senior Research Fellow - Transport Research and Consultancy),
Thaddaeus O’Higgins (Research Assistant - Transport Research
and Consultancy) & Michael Gommers (Project Coordinator -
Netherlands Economic Institute)
Keywords - dansk
Evaluering, jernbaner, cost-benefit analyse,
multikriterie analyse, Europa
Keywords - engelsk
Evaluation, railways, cost-benefit analysis,
multicriteria analysis, Europe
Session
Jernbaner
År
1997
Konferencerapport
Side 195