Demand Responsive Rail Transport: Applicability of demand responsive rail transport as a substitute for scheduled heavy rail: a model for relating operational performance of rail DRT to infrastructure capacity

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the concept of Demand Responsive Transport (DRT). The area of application has almost exclusively been limited to road bound systems. Applying DRT as a substitute for current heavy rail services has not been considered in literature or practice before. This thesis is a first step into the...