A new approach to estimating the occupation time of the railway infrastructure

Abstract

The paper describes UIC methodology and a technique used by Slovakian infrastructure managers for estimating railway capacity and proposes a new approach to evaluating the capacity consumption of a track line (occupation time) based on the graphic approach. The new methodology concerns for the assessment of infrastructure occupation time and is a conceptual framework developed by the authors for an easier evaluation of occupation time in the train traffic diagram.

First published online: 10 Feb 2011

Keyword : ŽSR methodology, UIC methodology, train traffic diagram, railway capacity, infrastructure occupation