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NEC FUTURE Preliminary Alternatives Report: Public Comment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-06)
The United States Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is currently in the early stages of a planning process to define a 30-year passenger rail investment plan for the Northeast Corridor ...
Analysis of High-Speed Rail Implementation Alternatives in the Northeast Corridor: the Role of Institutional and Technological Flexibility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2012-07)
In this paper, an engineering systems framework using the CLIOS Process, scenario analysis, and flexibility analysis is used to study the implementation of a high-speed rail corridor in the Northeast Corridor of the United ...
Analysis of Capacity Pricing and Allocation Mechanisms in Shared Railway Systems: Lessons for the Northeast Corridor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2015-03)
Recently, governments have started promoting the use of shared railway systems as a way to take advantage of the existing capital-intensive railway infrastructure. Until 1988, all major railways both managed the infrastructure ...
NEC FUTURE Tier I Scoping Process: Public Comment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2012-10)
Utilizing its special expertise, the Regional Transportation Planning and High Speed Rail Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sought to provide input via public comment to the NEC FUTURE Tier ...
Capacity pricing schemes to implement open-access rail in Tanzania
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-06)
We analyze alternative capacity pricing schemes (access charges) to implement an open-access railway system in Tanzania. We show that the implementation of variable access charges widely used in the railway industry may ...
Train Timetable Design for Shared Railway Systems using a Linear Programming Approach to Approximate Dynamic Programming
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-05)
In the last 15 years, the use of rail infrastructure by different train operating companies (shared railway system) has been proposed as a way to improve infrastructure utilization and to increase efficiency in the railway ...
Rail Infrastructure Manager Problem: Analyzing Capacity Pricing and Allocation in Shared Railway System
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-03)
This paper proposes a train timetabling model for shared railway systems. The model is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming problem and solved both using commercial software and a novel algorithm based on ...
Analyzing the Financial Relationship between Railway Industry Players in Shared Railway Systems: The Train Operator’s Perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-08)
Capacity pricing and allocation play an important role in efficient management of railway corridors, especially shared ones. This paper analyzes how Train Operators (TOs) would respond to different track-access charges, ...