Odolinski, K orcid.org/0000-0001-7852-403X and Boysen, HE (2019) Railway line capacity utilisation and its impact on maintenance costs. Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 9. pp. 22-33. ISSN 2210-9706
Abstract
In this paper, we analyse how railway maintenance costs are affected by different levels of railway line capacity utilisation. Previous studies have focused on the wear and tear of the infrastructure, while this paper shows that it is important to also acknowledge the heterogeneity of the maintenance production environment. Specifically, we estimate marginal maintenance costs for traffic using econometric methods on a panel dataset from Sweden and show that these costs increase with line capacity utilisation. The results are significant considering that current EU regulation (2015/909) states that track access charges can be based on marginal costs, with the aim of achieving an efficient use of available infrastructure capacity.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article, published in Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Maintenance; Marginal cost; Rail infrastructure; Capacity; Track access charges |
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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) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2021 11:17 |
Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2021 11:17 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2018.12.001 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:172754 |
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