Position of railway passenger transport companies on current liberalized transport market

Market liberalization is a great contemporary trend in many fields of economy. Liberalized transport market, where the transport demand is meeting with transport offer, is evolving dynamically. Private railway passenger operators want to increase their market share together with national railway passenger transport companies therefore the quality of passenger transportation is getting higher, which positively influences the attractiveness of railway passenger transport. The article is focused on these current trends of liberalization in railway passenger transport market. From operational and economical point of view, there are described some ways, how to make the railway passenger transport system more effective and make the entire transport system more attractive for traveling public.

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Railways as a Key Part of Integrated Transport Systems

Transport technic and technology ◽

10.2478/ttt-2019-0003 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 12-15

Author(s):

Martin Vojtek ◽

Martin Kendra ◽

Jaromír Široký

Keyword(s):

Transport System ◽

Point Of View ◽

Transport Systems ◽

System Quality ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

Main Requirement ◽

Railway Passenger Transport ◽

Railway Passenger

Abstract Integrated passenger transport system consists of many factors with various impacts on the entire system quality. In passenger transport, there are mostly individual passengers therefore it is difficult to determine all transport requirements. In the passenger transport system, there are several modes of transport, but passengers mostly use road and rail transport. Passenger transport system is influenced by many qualitative factors with various impacts. The paper is focused on analysis of the role of railways in integrated passenger transport systems. The analysis is from passenger point of view because the key element in railway passenger transport is the passenger (customer), who requires the transport from one place to another. A basic precondition for accomplishing the main requirement (transport), is making the complete offer which provides not only transport, but also other complementary services. There are several types of passenger trains, which jointly create a part of integrated transport system. Quality of this transport system depends on train route topology, timetable of trains, number and location of all stations and stops. Primary function of the transport system is providing transport for passengers on regional, national-interregional and international level; therefore, the analysis involves these levels.

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Methodology for calculation of minimum transfer time in the transport hub

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201823500015 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 235 ◽

pp. 00015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Martin Vojtek ◽

Tomas Skrucany ◽

Martin Kendra ◽

Jan Ponicky

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Transfer Time ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

Or Education ◽

Passenger Vehicles ◽

Main Requirement ◽

Passenger Transportation ◽

Railway Passenger Transport ◽

Passenger Trains ◽

Railway Passenger

The most important element in railway passenger transport is a customer – traveller, who requires the transport from one place to another. A basic precondition for accomplishing the main requirement – transport, is making the complete offer which provides not only transport, but also other associated services. Practically, there are many associated criteria of transport, for example safety, duration, price, reliability, comfort and complementary services. Passenger transport is generally considered as an activity, which arises as the consequence of spatial division of places, where people are in exact time and their need to move. Motivators for moving could be commuting – job or education, dealing with personal or working matters, travelling for vacation – hiking, sport, health, cultural and social facilities, visiting relatives and friends. Requirements for transport of passengers originate in the need to move, while the passenger transport is dependent on the willingness of travelling. In passenger transport, there are mostly individual passengers, so it is difficult to determine all transport requirements. The paper is focused on one of the key factors of passenger transportation - connectivity of trains. Connectivity of passenger trains and other means of transport can be distinguished also from temporal and spatial point of view. Temporal connectivity is such sequence of arrivals and departures of different passenger trains and other means of transport, which allows changing the different passenger vehicles easily in regard to necessary time. Spatial connectivity means the distance between two passenger vehicles, among which the passenger is moving. In the paper, there is described the general methodology for calculation of minimum transfer time in the railway station. Railway passenger station is some kind of transport hub – a starting and finishing point for flows of passengers. Passengers have the opportunity to change the train type from long-haul train to regional train or contrariwise or simply enter or leave the system of railway transport. In the methodology, all necessary aspects are taken into account.

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JUSTIFICATION OF THE VALUE OF REQUIRED INTERVAL BETWEEN VEHICLES IN SUBURBAN AND URBAN PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION ON THE EXAMPLE OF RAILWAY DIAMETERS

Herald of the Ural State University of Railway Transport ◽

10.20291/2079-0392-2020-3-81-88 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 81-88

Author(s):

D. Yu. Romenkiy ◽

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K. A. Kalinin ◽

Keyword(s):

Transport System ◽

Transport Systems ◽

Continuous Mode ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

Passenger Transportation ◽

Mode Of Operation ◽

Speed Parameter ◽

Railway Passenger ◽

Qualitative Estimation ◽

Stop Point

When designing passenger transport systems and modeling their operation, researchers face the problem of choosing the consumer properties of the transport system. In modern conditions, in order to compete with other modes of transport, each transport system must offer the passenger a continuous mode of operation, in which the passenger does not need to adjust to the schedule, but only needs to arrive at the stop point and wait for the nearest vehicle (train, bus, etc.). One of the most important characteristics required for design and simulation is the time that a passenger is willing to spend waiting for a vehicle at a station without compromising the comfort of transportation. The paper reveals regularities between such important parameters of schedules as the maximum allowable (optimal for the organizer of transportation) and comfortable (for the passenger) value of intervals between vehicles on the example of suburban-urban railway passenger transportation. A qualitative estimation of the speed parameter of the vehicle traffic schedule is introduced. The values of comfortable and maximum permissible intervals between trains are determined depending on the distance (duration) of the trip.

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Research about Petri Nets Modeling of Railway Spring Festival Passenger Transport Based on Scale Free Networks

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.143-144.682 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 143-144 ◽

pp. 682-686

Author(s):

Biao Huang ◽

Yang Li ◽

Quan Zhou ◽

Jin Jin Guan ◽

Hua Dong Wei

Keyword(s):

Petri Nets ◽

Transport System ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

Modeling And Analysis ◽

Scale Free ◽

Spring Festival ◽

Scale Free Networks ◽

Railway Passenger Transport ◽

Railway Passenger

The research starts from the railway Spring Festival Passenger Transport problems which exposed in the natural disasters, introduces the conception of Scale Free Networks in Chinese railway Passenger Transport system, focus on discussing the characteristic of Chinese railway Passenger Transport system and other related problems, researches the characteristic of railway Spring Festival Passenger Transport, introduces the Petri nets to the “hub” nodes, takes the allocation of train resources and Evacuation of Passenger in emergency as examples, finish the modeling and analysis, it provides scientific research means and theoretical support for making Pre-planned Emergency Response Scheme for passenger pressure and disaster,enhancing the Fusion of multidisciplinary and enhancing railway emergency response capacity

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Proposal of Traffic Service Rationalization on Zvolen – Šahy Railway Line

Transport technic and technology ◽

10.2478/ttt-2020-0005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 21-25

Author(s):

Jozef Gašparík ◽

Milan Dedík ◽

Martin Vojtek ◽

Adrián Šperka

Keyword(s):

Transport System ◽

Current Trend ◽

Transport Systems ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

Population Mobility ◽

Transport Characteristic ◽

Railway Line ◽

Railway Passenger Transport ◽

Passenger Trains ◽

Railway Passenger

AbstractIncreasing population mobility and current trend of creating integrated passenger transport systems are opportunities for finding new possibilities to rationalization the railway passenger transport on those lines, where are no passenger trains or where the traffic service is not optimal nowadays. Precondition of reinstating the railway passenger transport is thorough potential passenger analysis, where there are actual geographic, demographic and transport characteristics of the region, where this line is situated. The contribution describes the passenger transport system, timetables rationalization and standards of traffic service in rail passenger transport. Consequently, according to these outputs and demographic and transport characteristic was proposed the rationalization of traffic service at Zvolen – Šahy transport route.

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Increasing the mobility of University North students by improving the railway infrastructure: Case study on the Varaždin-Koprivnica route

10.7307/ptsm.2020.1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Predrag Brlek ◽

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Krešimir Grđan ◽

Ljudevit Krpan ◽

Ivan Cvitković ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Transport Infrastructure ◽

Current Status ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

The North ◽

Railway Infrastructure ◽

Railway Passenger Transport ◽

Railway Passenger ◽

The University ◽

University Of The North

The trend of an increasing number of student travellers from the University of the North, the University Centers of Koprivnica and Varaždin also affects the quality of their mobility. The mobility of student-passengers in rail passenger transport is directly related to the quality of service and the inevitable maximum safety aspect, but also to the appropriate railway infrastructure. According to the above, it is necessary to analyse the current state of transport infrastructure and propose activities to increase the mobility of student-passengers. This paper analyses the current status of student-passenger mobility in railway passenger transport, and also analyses the regional features of road and railway transport infrastructure, state road DC-2 and railway R202 Varaždin-Dalj, located between the cities of Varaždin and Koprivnica, with regard to route characteristics and infrastructure facilities. As part of the work, a survey was conducted through questionnaires, and questionnaires were completed by students-travellers of the University of the North.

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ЦІЛІСНЕ УПРАВЛІННЯ СПОЖИВЧОЮ ЦІННІСТЮ У ЗАЛІЗНИЧНИХ ПАСАЖИРСЬКИХ ПЕРЕВЕЗЕННЯХ

European Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽

10.31435/rsglobal_ejits/31072019/6583 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 39-44

Author(s):

Т. С. Мельник

Keyword(s):

Research Methodology ◽

Marketing Research ◽

Practical Significance ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

Long Distance ◽

Holistic Management ◽

Passenger Transportation ◽

Consumer Value ◽

Railway Passenger Transport ◽

Railway Passenger

Purpose. The work is devotes to the definition of the prerequisites, the rationale and the formation of a new marketing research concept for rail passenger traffic, which is the holistic management of the consumer value of services for passengers. Research methodology. To achieve the goal of the work, a critical analysis was made of the existing marketing research methodology, carried out in compliance with the general basic principles, at certain stages, using common methods, and the practical significance of these studies for the management of the national railway. Systems analysis allowed to identify the main problems of Ukraine’s railway passenger transport of a practical nature and to identify unresolved aspects of a scientific task. Results. The lack of effectiveness of the existing long-distance passenger transport management was notes. It is proves that the demand for rail passenger transportation in longdistance traffic is an extremely complex socio-economic phenomenon, the study of which requires a special approach. The essence of consumer value as a complex structure is analyzes, its features are highlights, which proves its heterogeneity for different services and consumer segments. It is shows that the existing methods for determining consumer value do not provide an opportunity to correctly establish its value, effectively manage it and are not properly adapted to the services of long-distance railway passenger transport. The need for the development of a marketing research methodology based on the holistic management of the consumer value of passenger services has been substantiate. Scientific novelty. Introduced the concept of holistic management of consumer value, revealed its essence and differences from the integrated management. The development of the marketing research methodology is gives in terms of the fundamental principles - general and specific, which are necessary for the implementation of the new concept of holistic management of the consumer value of services. Practical significance. Taking into account the specifics of passenger transportation services by long distance rail transport, the stages of determining the use value of services of this type of transportation were develops on the basis of the proposed concept of holistic management of it, which should increase the soundness and effectiveness of management decisions in the passenger rail transport sector of Ukraine.

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Calculation of total costs when ensuring railway passenger transport at the Bratislava to Banská Bystrica line

Transport and Communications ◽

10.26552/tac.c.2017.2.10 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 41-45

Author(s):

Zdenka Záhumenská ◽

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Jozef Gašparík ◽

Milan Škorupa ◽

Petr Vladimirovich Kurenkov

Keyword(s):

Great Emphasis ◽

Quality Of Services ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

Long Distance ◽

The Public ◽

Railway Company ◽

Railway Passenger Transport ◽

Passenger Flows ◽

Railway Passenger

Nowadays, great emphasis is placed on the quality of services provided in rail passenger transport, which is influenced by several factors. The competition between operators in the public tender when ordering paths in long-distance rail passenger transport is very significant. The aim of this article is to analyse steps of the Slovak government in the announcement of the first public tenders to provide subsidized transport of a selected line and to determine conditions for this tender. During 2015, Slovak Ministry of Transport began to take steps towards the liberalisation of the long-distance domestic rail passenger service on the Bratislava to Banská Bystrica line, which opened up the market for domestic passenger services to a new railway company. The Bratislava to Banská Bystrica line was chosen because of the provision of sufficient transport performance and passenger flows. The liberalisation process of the Bratislava to Banská Bystrica line is still ongoing, and has entered competitive conditions and criteria stage, although the tender had yet to be concluded in 2015.

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Implementation of Six Sigma methodology using DMAIC to achieve processes improvement in railway transport

Production Engineering Archives ◽

10.30657/pea.2019.23.03 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (23) ◽

pp. 18-21

Author(s):

Eva Nedeliaková ◽

Vladimíra Štefancová ◽

Michal Petr Hranický

Keyword(s):

Six Sigma ◽

Transport Processes ◽

Statistical Problem ◽

Point Of View ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

Railway Transport ◽

Transport Services ◽

Railway Passenger Transport ◽

Six Sigma Methodology ◽

Railway Passenger

Abstract The provision of quality transport services is a prerequisite for the creation of an efficient organization that can meet the expectations and requirements of both the enterprise itself and its customers. From the railway enterprise's point of view, it is necessary to pay attention to the increasingly demanding requirements of its customers in railway passenger transport. This article focuses on identifying defects in rail transport processes that negatively affect ordinary operations. One of the most serious bottlenecks affecting railway transport reliability is the train delay, which fundamentally affects the perception of railway transport. At the same time, it emphasizes the need to apply individual tools according to the DMAIC cycle in order to achieve continuous improvement. The aim of the implemented Six Sigma methodology in railway enterprise is disciplined application of statistical problem-solving tools to recognize the gaps in the transport process and set out individual steps for their gradual removal.

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IDENTIFICATION OF EXOGENOUS FACTORS THAT CAUSE THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION

Black Sea Economic Studies ◽

10.32843/bses.67-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Viktoria Ovchynnikova ◽

Denys Popov

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

Transport Systems ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

Railway Transport ◽

Railway Transportation ◽

High Speed Railway ◽

Passenger Transportation ◽

Railway Passenger Transport ◽

Exogenous Factors ◽

Railway Passenger

The article proves the need to develop high-speed railway transport, due to the fact that the last decade of travel on high-speed trains around the world is often faster than on airplanes, due to the lack of lengthy check-in, baggage screening, airport transfers and others. This type of transportation is becoming a major factor in the growing trend when passengers choose a high-speed train instead of an airplane. A detailed analysis of high-speed railway transport activities and their competitive advantages in the domestic and world transport markets are outlined. It is proved that in the conditions of cardinal transformation of the external environment caused by globalization, digitalization and intellectualization of world economy the guarantee of efficiency of strategy of development of any business entity is establishment of exogenous factors. The necessity of using methods and models of strategic management in the process of development of high-speed railway transportation in Ukraine is substantiated, as well as the necessity of determining the corresponding exogenous factors. The study identified the following key factors: intensification of international traffic, development of subversive technologies for trains and new transport systems, introduction of multimodal high-speed railway passenger transport technologies, development of multimodal transport infrastructure for high-speed railway passenger transport, development of private passenger transport, partnerships in the use of various forms of state support, digitalization of business processes of high-speed railway passenger transportation, development of intelligent transport systems for high-speed railway passenger transportation, improving customer service of high-speed railway passenger transportation, increasing reliability and safety of rail passenger-passenger transportation cross-border cooperation during the development of high high-speed railway passenger traffic. This will create a basis for determining the impact of macroeconomic conditions on the development of high-speed passenger railway transport and establish the patterns of their economic growth.

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