Print Email Facebook Twitter Benchmark analysis of railway networks and undertakings Title Benchmark analysis of railway networks and undertakings Author Hansen, I.A. Wiggenraad, P.B.L. Wolff, J.W. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport & Planning Date 2013-05-13 Abstract Benchmark analysis of railway networks and companies has been stimulated by the European policy of deregulation of transport markets, the opening of national railway networks and markets to new entrants and separation of infrastructure and train operation. Recent international railway benchmarking studies which are mostly based on statistical data compiled by UIC demonstrate a variety of performance measures, assessment methods and the results suggest no clear interdependence between the organisation model of the railway industry and its efficiency. Economic evidence suggests that vertical separation between infrastructure management and train operations increases costs athigher traffic densities, while at lower densities it reduces costs. At mean traffic densities a holding model reduces costs compared with vertical integration, while vertical separation does not change costs. In this paper a more comprehensive approach for benchmark analysis is proposed that includes relevant technical and economic key performance criteria and indicators for assessing the transport and traffic output, effectiveness, productivity, and efficiency performance of railway networks and undertakings. In first instance, data and preliminary results and conclusions from a regression analysis of empirical technical and commercial data and Data Envelopment Analysis of the network productivity and operating efficiency of 11 mid-size European railway networks and undertakings in the year 2009 are reported. Subject benchmarkinginfrastructureoperationsproductivityefficiency To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3b11bd93-ed1a-4d35-b0f4-801e50e680e6 Publisher International Association of Railway Operations Research (IAROR) ISBN 978-87-7327-246-6 Source RailCopenhagen2013: 5th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis, Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15 May 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2013 The Author(s) Files PDF 293124.pdf 239.79 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3b11bd93-ed1a-4d35-b0f4-801e50e680e6/datastream/OBJ/view