Lecture 3 - Challenges and Solution Approaches Flashcards

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Technical Challenges

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Improved energy efficiency, noise reduction, pollutant reduction, more (freight) transport on rails, driverless driving

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Share of rail passenger transport in the world

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China: 35 %
Japan: 30 %
Switzerland: 25 %
Europe: 6-12 % (Germany 9.6 %)
USA: 1 %
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Freight transport types

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Combined transport carrying entire lorries, combined transport with containers, trainload transport, wagonload transport

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Long Transport Times between Road and Rail freight transport

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Reason 1: Train journeys must be registered some days prior to departure in order to integrate them in schedule
Reason 2: Since passenger and freight transport share many sections of the line, the freight train often has to wait at passing sidings (for the passenger train to pass it)
Reason 3: Laborious train formation
Reason 4: It’s cheap to use lorries

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Name some technical problems that hinder interoperability of railways in Europe.

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The European countries have different track gauges, different electric power systems and different train protection systems

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Solution Concepts for the Railway

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  • Automated shunting (including automatic coupling, brake test)
  • Automated loading technologies
  • Standardized train control and train protection technology in Europe
  • Europe-wide certification (as for lorries)
  • Separate passenger and freight transport, dissolve bottlenecks (Build more tracks for the freight transport)
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Main problem freight transport

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Traffic increases constantly reaching the technical limitations, congested roads, saturated railways

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Aims of the coalition agreement of the Federal Government of March 2018

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Overriding aim: Comply with the Paris climate protection targets for 2050
Aims: Transfer of commuted traffic from road to rail, double the number of passengers by 2030, more freight transport by rail by 2030
Measures: Expansion of the freight rail network for train lengths up to 740m by 2020, increase in the share of electrified lines from 60% to 70% by 2025, promotion of automation of freight transport and autonomous driving
Expectation: improved service and reliability, more innovations

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Track Gauges in Europe

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Russian Gauge: 1524 mm
Irish: 1600 mm
Iberian: 1668 mm
Standard: 1435 mm

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Political Aspects - Costs

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Corporate-economic aspects which affects customers are predominant
National economic considerations
Unfair competition caused by different consideration of transport charges

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