Supply/Demand study on a freight railway corridor in Europe: case study with Trans-Tool model
Tutor/a - Director/a
Almoguera Carvajal, Josep Manuel
Estudiant
Maroni Filardo, Daniele
Tipus de document
Projecte Final de Màster Oficial
Data
2008
rights
Accés restringit per decisió de l'autor
Editorial
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Centre
UPCommons
Resum
The present project consists in the calibration of a four steps transportation planning model
for the base year 2005 in order to perform a supply/demand case study on a railway corridor
in Europe.
The final objective of the project is to set the basis for passenger and freight demand
forecasting in a European railway corridor assuming different supply and service scenarios in
order to evaluate the interaction and the balance between demand and supply.
The four step methodology has been applied to a real case of freight railway corridor which
extent is from Algeciras to Stockholm, passing through thirteen European countries. The
modelling tool adopted is the Trans-Tools software, integrated with the employ of a set of
complementary modules developed by the study team, whose task is to fine tune the final
results.
Trans-Tools (Tool for Transport Forecasting and Scenario Testing) is a model developed
under European funding in order to set the basis for the development of an integrated policy
support tool for transport at European Union level.
The project consists in 4 parts: the first contains the scope and the objective of the study, as
well as the definition of the transport system to be analyzed, which includes both passenger
and freight transportation modes (Road, Rail, Air, Inland Waterways, and Short Sea
Shipping).
The second is a very brief introduction to the four steps transport modelling methodology.
The third part contains a description of the main modelling tool employed (Trans-Tools) and
its sub-models which are also detailed in the annex 3. This part's aim is to explain the
underlying theory and the assumptions made by each of them.
Finally the fourth part describes the additional models which have been created in order to
improve the Trans-Tools results (for freight demand) and integrate them (calculation of the
rail traffic in terms of number of train instead of passenger/day and tonnes/day). In this part
the results of the calibration of the whole model for the base year 2005 are presented too.
Professorat participant
- Almoguera Carvajal, Josep Manuel