Substitution from Air to High-Speed Rail: The Case of Amsterdam Airport

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (5) ◽  
pp. 166-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Kroes ◽  
Fons Savelberg
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Short Distance ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Market Segment ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Rail Network ◽  
High Speed Trains

In this paper we present the results of a study that aims to establish the potential for high-speed train travel as a substitute for short distance air travel at Amsterdam Airport. We investigated the 13 most important destinations that offer direct flights to and from Amsterdam Airport. Almost 40% of the air passengers travelling to/from these destinations are transfer passengers. Empirical evidence reveals that high-speed trains dominate the market for journeys of 2 hours or less, such as between Paris and Brussels. However, trains claim only a tiny market share of journeys longer than 5 to 6 hours; air travel dominates that market segment. Using these findings, we developed a model to estimate the substitution of air travel with high-speed train travel. The explanatory variables in this model are travel time, daily departure options, fares, and the inconvenience associated with transferring at airports. In a “minimum” scenario, we predict that in 2030 high-speed trains could replace approximately 1.9 million air journeys. This calculation is based on feasible reductions of train travel times and increased train frequencies for part of the rail network. In this scenario, Amsterdam–London accounts for more than three-quarters of the predicted substitution. In a “maximum” scenario, substitution could increase up to 3.7 million air journeys per year, provided that inconveniences for passengers when transferring at airports from plane to train are resolved and train ticket fares are reduced by 20%. These two scenarios imply a reduction of 2.5 to 5% of all flights to/from Amsterdam Airport in 2030.

scholarly journals Infrastructure costs and benefits of European high-speed rail

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Nedžad Branković ◽  
Aida Kalem
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Rail Network ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Conventional Rail ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable

The development of new technologies has significantly influenced railways modernization and has caused the appearance of high-speed rail which represent a safe, comfortable and ecologically sustainable way of transportation. The high-speed rail present a big step in a relation to conventional railways, where the biggest difference is speed which even entails a change of other organizational and operational parameters, better utilization of trains, higher performance of manpower and better service to users.  That is visible in many cities around the world where high-speed trains are used by billions of users. In the EU there is no unique high-speed railway network, besides that in many EU member countries various operational models are applied. The future of the high-speed railways market depends on political, economical and technical factors and challenges as high infrastructure costs, various rates of return on investment and the negative effects of economic crises. The main objective of the paper is to analyze infrastucture costs of high-speed rail in Europe and benefits such us  time savings, higher reliability, comfort, safety, reducing pollution and the release of capacity in the conventional rail network, roads and airport infrastructure.

scholarly journals The Effect of Pendolino high-speed rail on the structure of buildings located in the proximity of railway tracks

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-238
Author(s):  
K. Grębowski ◽  
Z. Ulman
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Building Structure ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Railway Tracks ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Railway System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The following research focuses on the dynamic analysis of impact of the high-speed train induced vibrations on the structures located near railway tracks. The office complex chosen as the subject of calculations is located in the northern part of Poland, in Gdańsk, in the proximity of Pendolino, the high speed train route. The high speed trains are the response for the growing needs for a more efficient railway system. However, with a higher speed of the train, the railway induced vibrations might cause more harmful resonance in the structures of the nearby buildings. The damage severity depends on many factors such as the duration of said resonance and the presence of additional loads. The studies and analyses helped to determinate the method of evaluating the impact of railway induced vibrations on any building structure. The dynamic analysis presented in the research is an example of a method which allows an effective calculation of the impact of vibrations via SOFISTIK program.

Who Rides the High Speed Rail in the United States: The Acela Express Case Study

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Chen
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
The United States ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Least Square ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Rail Network ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
Internal And External Factors

In this study, we focus on the Acela Express, and try to find out how selected internal and external factors affect the Acela Express’s ridership. A two-stage least square regression model is introduced in order to eliminate the endogeneity problem caused by price and ridership. Also the Cochrane-Orcutt Procedure is adopted to solve autocorrelation. The result shows that ticket price and train on-time performances, which are used to being thought as important factors affect ridership become insignificant, while other factors like employment of business and professional in the Northeast Corridor areas have higher influence on high speed train ridership. The broader objective of this research is to provide policy suggestions for building of an efficient high-speed rail network that can both be profitable and solve practical problems that the contemporary transportation system faces.

scholarly journals ENSURING TRAIN SAFETY ON HIGH-SPEED RAIL-HIGHWAY

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Dayana Bitigova ◽  
Dinar Bekzhanov ◽  
Saule Bekzhanova
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Traffic System ◽  
Rail Network ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Train Safety

Modern high-speed trains in normal operation develop speeds of up to 350-400 km / h, and in tests they can even accelerate to 560-580 km/h. Due to the speed of service and high speed of movement, they seriously compete with other modes of transport, while maintaining such a property of all trains as low cost of transportation with a large volume of passenger traffic. For the first time the regular movement of high-speed trains began in 1964 in Japan under the Shinkansen project. In 1981, VSNT trains began to run in France, and soon most of Western Europe, including even the island of Great Britain, became connected by a single high-speed rail network. At the beginning of the XXI century, China became the world leader in the development of a network of high-speed lines, as well as the operator of the first regular high-speed maglev.In Russia, the regular operation of high-speed trains "Sapsan", on common tracks with conventional trains, began at the end of 2009. Since 2013, the idea of building the first specialized high-speed railway Moscow-Kazan (cargo-passenger) for the national high-speed traffic system has been discussed.Most of the high-speed trains carry passengers, but there are varieties designed for the transport of goods. For example, the French service La Poste has used special TGV electric trains for 30 years, which served to transport mail and parcels (their operation was completed in June 2015 due to the decrease in the volume of mailings in recent years).

The United Aircraft High Speed Train Suspension Design

1968 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Cripe
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
High Speed Trains

The demand for improved high speed rail transportation in our growing metropolitan corridor areas has resulted in United Aircraft’s designing and building several new turbine-powered high speed trains. This paper describes some of the unique features in the suspension design permitting significant improvements in comfort and the ability of the trains to negotiate existing curves with greater speed and safety.

scholarly journals Solar Energy for Traction of High Speed Rail Transportation: A Techno-economic Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 1566-1576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cawas Phiroze Nazir
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Battery Storage ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Rail Network ◽  
Electricity Cost ◽  
Grid Connection ◽  
Solar Plant ◽  
High Speed Trains

To meet the growing expectation of traveling public, world railways are going ahead in a big way to introduce high speed trains Electric railways require huge amounts of energy. Many rail networks run their own dedicated power plants. With a view to augment the capacity of the rail networks grid connection so as to make the railway self-reliant, a grid tied PV solar plant with battery storage has been proposed. The present concept is based on installing solar panels along the length of a HS rail network so that the ballast-less tracks could be used as energy carriers. Ballast less tracks require little or no maintenance, and the space along the tracks provides a large surface area on which arrays of PV modules can be mounted to generate electricity from sunlight. An example demonstrates that a 330 MW grid connected PV solar plant with battery storage for the Mumbai–Ahmedabad high speed rail link, generates electricity at $1.67  106 /MW output and levelized electricity cost at 12.05 c/kWh. Net saving in tariff after payback period is about $ 58 million per annum.

Comparative study on the use of acoustic emission and vibration analyses for the bearing fault diagnosis of high-speed trains

2021 ◽  
pp. 147592172110360
Author(s):  
Dongming Hou ◽  
Hongyuan Qi ◽  
Honglin Luo ◽  
Cuiping Wang ◽  
Jiangtian Yang
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
Signal Attenuation ◽  
Transmission Path ◽  
Bearing Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Operation Conditions ◽  
Fault Features ◽  
High Speed Trains

A wheel set bearing is an important supporting component of a high-speed train. Its quality and performance directly determine the overall safety of the train. Therefore, monitoring a wheel set bearing’s conditions for an early fault diagnosis is vital to ensure the safe operation of high-speed trains. However, the collected signals are often contaminated by environmental noise, transmission path, and signal attenuation because of the complexity of high-speed train systems and poor operation conditions, making it difficult to extract the early fault features of the wheel set bearing accurately. Vibration monitoring is most widely used for bearing fault diagnosis, with the acoustic emission (AE) technology emerging as a powerful tool. This article reports a comparison between vibration and AE technology in terms of their applicability for diagnosing naturally degraded wheel set bearings. In addition, a novel fault diagnosis method based on the optimized maximum second-order cyclostationarity blind deconvolution (CYCBD) and chirp Z-transform (CZT) is proposed to diagnose early composite fault defects in a wheel set bearing. The optimization CYCBD is adopted to enhance the fault-induced impact response and eliminate the interference of environmental noise, transmission path, and signal attenuation. CZT is used to improve the frequency resolution and match the fault features accurately under a limited data length condition. Moreover, the efficiency of the proposed method is verified by the simulated bearing signal and the real datasets. The results show that the proposed method is effective in the detection of wheel set bearing faults compared with the minimum entropy deconvolution (MED) and maximum correlated kurtosis deconvolution (MCKD) methods. This research is also the first to compare the effectiveness of applying AE and vibration technologies to diagnose a naturally degraded high-speed train bearing, particularly close to actual line operation conditions.

A real-time control method-based simulation for high-speed trains on large-scale rail network

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1750126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yutong Liu ◽  
Chengxuan Cao ◽  
Yaling Zhou ◽  
Ziyan Feng
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Traffic Flow ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Real Time Control ◽  
Rail Network ◽  
Time Control ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Rail Traffic

In this paper, an improved real-time control model based on the discrete-time method is constructed to control and simulate the movement of high-speed trains on large-scale rail network. The constraints of acceleration and deceleration are introduced in this model, and a more reasonable definition of the minimal headway is also presented. Considering the complicated rail traffic environment in practice, we propose a set of sound operational strategies to excellently control traffic flow on rail network under various conditions. Several simulation experiments with different parameter combinations are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the control simulation method. The experimental results are similar to realistic environment and some characteristics of rail traffic flow are also investigated, especially the impact of stochastic disturbances and the minimal headway on the rail traffic flow on large-scale rail network, which can better assist dispatchers in analysis and decision-making. Meanwhile, experimental results also demonstrate that the proposed control simulation method can be in real-time control of traffic flow for high-speed trains not only on the simple rail line, but also on the complicated large-scale network such as China’s high-speed rail network and serve as a tool of simulating the traffic flow on large-scale rail network to study the characteristics of rail traffic flow.

scholarly journals A Study on the Energy-Harvesting Device with a Magnetic Spring for Improved Durability in High-Speed Trains

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 830
Author(s):  
Jaehoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Permanent Magnets ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvesting ◽  
Magnetic Spring ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Energy Harvesting Devices

Durability is a critical issue concerning energy-harvesting devices. Despite the energy-harvesting device’s excellent performance, moving components, such as the metal spring, can be damaged during operation. To solve the durability problem of the metal spring in a vibration-energy-harvesting (VEH) device, this study applied a non-contact magnetic spring to a VEH device using the repulsive force of permanent magnets. A laboratory experiment was conducted to determine the potential energy-harvesting power using the magnetic spring VEH device. In addition, the characteristics of the generated power were studied using the magnetic spring VEH device in a high-speed train traveling at 300 km/h. Through the high-speed train experiment, the power generated by both the metal spring VEH device and magnetic spring VEH device was measured, and the performance characteristics required for a power source for wireless sensor nodes in high-speed trains are discussed.

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