Smith, ASJ orcid.org/0000-0003-3668-5593, Odolinski, OK orcid.org/0000-0001-7852-403X, Hossein-Nia, S et al. (4 more authors) (2021) Estimating the marginal maintenance cost of different vehicle types on rail infrastructure. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 235 (10). pp. 1191-1202. ISSN 0954-4097
Abstract
In this paper, we combine engineering and economic methods to estimate the relative maintenance cost of different types of damage on the Swedish rail infrastructure. The engineering method is good at predicting damage from traffic, while the economic method is suitable for establishing a relationship between damage and cost. We exploit the best features of both methods in a two-stage approach and demonstrate its applicability for rail infrastructure charging, based on a sample of 143 track sections comprising about 11,000 km of track. The paper implements for the first time the method previously proposed in Smith et al., whilst also enhancing the method in several respects. We demonstrate how the estimated relative maintenance costs related to different damage mechanisms can be used to calculate the marginal cost of different vehicle types. The results are relevant for infrastructure managers in Europe who wish to differentiate their track access charges such that each vehicle pays its short run-marginal damage cost, which can support more efficient use of the rail infrastructure and influence vehicle design to minimize system costs.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021, © SAGE Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Track damage; marginal cost; access charging; econometric methods; engineering simulation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Economics and Discrete Choice (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union GA 636237 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2021 15:06 |
Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2022 10:28 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0954409721991309 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:170410 |