Conceptual Development, Analysis and Simulation of the Transport Capacity of a Freight Transport Vehicle in Vacuum Tubes at High Speed (Hyperloop Concept)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Santiago Pellicer Zubeldía
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Transport Capacity ◽  
Transport Vehicle ◽  
Vacuum Tubes ◽  
Development Analysis

scholarly journals Possible Impact of Long and Heavy Vehicles in the United Kingdom—A Commodity Level Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2754
Author(s):  
Heikki Liimatainen ◽  
Phil Greening ◽  
Pratyush Dadhich ◽  
Anna Keyes
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Traffic Volume ◽  
Heavy Vehicles ◽  
Transport Costs ◽  
Modal Shift ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Road Freight ◽  
Transport Vehicle

The potential effects of implementing longer and heavier vehicles (LHVs) in road freight transport have been studied in various countries, nationally and internationally, in Europe. These studies have focused on the implementation of LHVs on certain types of commodities and the experience from countries like Finland and Sweden, which have a long tradition of using LHVs, and in which LHVs used for all types of commodities have not been widely utilised. This study aimed to assess the impacts of long and heavy vehicles on various commodities in the United Kingdom based on the Finnish experiences in order to estimate the possible savings in road freight transport vehicle kilometres, costs, and CO2 emissions in the United Kingdom if LHVs would be introduced and used similarly to in Finland in the transport of various commodities. The study shows that the savings of introducing longer and heavier vehicles in the United Kingdom would be 1.5–2.6 billion vehicle kms, £0.7–1.5 billion in transport costs, and 0.35–0.72 Mt in CO2 emissions. These findings are well in line with previous findings in other countries. The results confirm that considerable savings in traffic volume and emissions can be achieved and the savings are very likely to outweigh possible effects of modal shift from rail to road.

La politica ferroviaria europea: dalla prudenza alla liberalizzazione (1957-2007)*

2009 ◽  
pp. 99-107
Author(s):  
Michčle Merger
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Rail System ◽  
Rail Systems ◽  
National Market ◽  
Conventional Rail ◽  
Liberalization Policy

- This article analyses the European Commission's efforts to encourage the development of efficient rail sector. The potential of railways for expanding their share of both passenger and freight transport was seriously limited by rail systems fragmented into national market shaped by national transport policies. The Commission stressed the importance of the necessary transformation of railway market that requires the following priorities: liberalization, free access market and competition, interoperability including both high speed and conventional rail networks. The European Commission's action (i.e. directive 91/440 and the railway packages) is intended to a renaissance of rail traffic, but the European States and the "historical" railway operators seem reluctant to apply these ambitious and "revolutionary" initiatives.Parole chiave: Commissione Europea, Politica di liberalizzazione, Sistema ferrociario, Politiche di trasporto statali, Operatori ferroviari, Politica regionale della CEE European Commission, Liberalization Policy, Rail System, National Transport Policies, Railway Operators, EEC Regional Policy

Research on the Feasibility of Express Freight Transport on High-Speed Railway in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 397-400 ◽  
pp. 2647-2650
Author(s):  
Yuan Ke Zhang ◽  
Si Ping Qin
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Transport Costs ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Effective Operation ◽  
Freight Market

The paper investigates the developing progress of express freight transport on high-speed railway at home and abroad. It is found that there are many successful cases for high-speed express freight transport products in foreign countries, suggesting the feasibility to carry out relevant services in China. Lack of advanced technology and effective operation management, the process of express freight transport on high-speed railway in China is postponed. After freight market demand analysis, the paper emphasizes on the infrastructures and running modes to analyze technical feasibility and on transport costs, efficiency and timeliness to analyze economic feasibility, ending with the conclusion that it is feasible for China to carry out express freight transport on high-speed railway, combined with some construction recommendations.

PREDICTABILITY OF TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (0) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Jan Burnewicz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Demographic Changes ◽  
Transport Capacity ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
The Past ◽  
Freight Traffic ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Intuitive Method

This article is a generalization of the author’s experience gathered when preparing transport development forecasts in Poland over the past quarter of a century. These forecasts have proved to be less accurate when prepared using only quantitative and strictly mathematical methods, and more accurate when the change indicators have been estimated using the expert (intuitive) method. The problem of inaccuracy of economic and transport forecasts can be explained by the notion of predictability, which makes it possible to divide phenomena into those that are more difficult or easier to predict and to identify phenomena that are not predictable at all. The existence of unpredictable phenomena has its source in influencing the reality of systemic determinants and random factors that have no bearing on the timeline. Predicting the need for transport requires the use of different methods for freight transport and different methods for the transport and mobility of people. The source of changes in the volume of the transport demand are predominantly fluctuations in the intensity of production and consumption, and changes in the need to cover space and, to a lesser extent, this source is the generation of new demand through the additional supply of services and transport capacity. Owing to the increasingly comprehensive statistics from past periods it is possible to establish that the correlation between the GDP and freight traffic is much weaker than previously thought. The demand for transport and mobility of people is less dependent on economic activity, and more dependent on demographic changes, the lifestyle of the population and the preferences in choosing the means of transport.

Optimal Allocation of High-Speed Railway Mobile Equipment Based on the Passenger Flow

2014 ◽  
Vol 505-506 ◽  
pp. 471-476
Author(s):  
Qing Jie Zheng ◽  
Bao Ming Han ◽  
Hua Li
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Allocation Problem ◽  
Load Factor ◽  
Transport Capacity ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Passenger Flow ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Passenger Load Factor ◽  
Multiple Units

Based on the relationship between passenger flow and demand of electric multiple units (EMU), a new methodology to calculate the EMU demand and allocate the EMU is proposed, which can meet the demand of passenger as well as avoid the waste of transport capacity. An offline allocation plan of EMU is designed by analyzing the fluctuation in passenger flow, passenger average haul distance, passenger load factor and so on. Using the methodology, the EMU allocation problem is solved through program, which is used in Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway to obtain the EMU allocation plan.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT IN EU STRATEGIC PRIORITIES: CHALLENGES FOR UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
A. MAKSYMENKO
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Average Distance ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Road Freight ◽  
The Eu

Priorities for a competitive and efficient EU transport system have been declared in the third White Paper published in 2011. The strategic priorities of European transport policy are integrated to other EU development priorities, including the European Green Deal, Territorial Agenda 2030. In December 2020 The European Commission presented “Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy – putting European transport on track for the future”. This document has outlined the European transport system’s path towards achieving objectives of a sustainable, smart and resilient mobility. The priorities of the European transport system focus on environmental issues, sustainability, development of high-speed railways, expansion of rail freight and passenger transport markets, development of multimodal transportation, technologies for a further electrification and automation in transport, digitalization, deployment of innovations. Road freight transport accounted for more than two thirds of freight traffic in 2019. For the EU member states bordered to Ukraine (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania), the share of road freight transport has been growing since 2011. These countries are mostly involved in the international road freight transportation. The average distance for which goods were carried by international road freight transport in EU was 581 km in 2018. For Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania the average distance varied from 603 to 786 km. The countries that have joined the EU since 2004 accounted for 80 % of all cross-trade in the EU, which emphasized on the relative competitiveness of hauliers from these countries. Transport companies from Poland are the most active in freight transport between EU countries, in particular in cabotage. In 2020, the European Parliament adopted the Mobility Package I. However, some Members of EU countries, including Poland and Romania claimed against some statements of the Package, including the driver returns home and rules on cabotage operation.

scholarly journals Freight transport using high-speed railways

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inara Watson ◽  
Amer Ali ◽  
Ali Bayyati
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Freight Transport
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