EUROPE-TRIP - European Railways Optimisation Planning Environment - Transportation Railways Integrated Planning
Overview
Background & policy context:
The European railway industry is in the midst of a process of restructuring and commercialisation. The process is based on the principle of separation between the management of the infrastructure and the provision of transport services. This has been driven by the EU Directives 91/440 and 95/19, which have set down the principles for the liberalisation of the market for providing rail services and for implementing the access-to-infrastructure procedure. The European Parliament and the Council agreed on a set of rail infrastructure Directives in February 2001.
Objectives:
The general aim of EUROPE-TRIP was to develop a framework able to assist the infrastructure manager in putting the new policy principles into practice, and in particular the principle of open access, by providing models, which support short to medium- and long-term planning. Specific aims of the project were to:
- define a business planning model focused on the management of infrastructure;
- analyse the mechanisms between the infrastructure manager (IM) and the train operators concerning the access to infrastructure;
- evaluate the methods for assessing the capacity of rail lines;
- analyse the costs of using the infrastructure.
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