Incentives for increased rail punctuality - State-of-the-art and means of development
Overview
Background & policy context:
In the long-term, punctuality in the railway sector has improved. In the short-term a slight tendency towards poorer punctuality has been identified and during the last five years work on punctuality has therefore intensified. The reason for these changes to the worse is probably increased capacity on the lines with increased sensibility for disturbances as a consequence. Lack of maintenance on the infrastructure as well as of the rolling stock is believed to be yet another reason.
In 2002 TFK made a preliminary study with the aim to map out today's knowledge in the area. The study dealt with theoretical framework, statistics concerning delays and their causes on Swedish railway but also the use of incentive models within rail and bus traffic in Sweden and internationally.
The knowledge from the preliminary study works as a source of knowledge for this project.
Objectives:
The aim of this project has been to show how rail punctuality in Sweden should progress in the future and how this work may be done through an incentives perspective.
Methodology:
- A theoretical survey of the punctuality work that has been carried out by the Swedish Rail Authority since 2002;
- A theoretical survey on the use of bonuses and penalties;
- Interviews (and workshop) with authorities and companies (SJ AB, Green Cargo AB, Tågkompaniet AB, BK Tåg AB, Citypendeln, A-train, SL AB, Skånetrafiken, Branschföreningen Tågopertörerna, Banverket) concerning the punctuality work that has been done so far but also what they consider to be problems and requests concerning this work.
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