Abstract
European freight railway operators are losing money with their single wagon load transportation activities. Closing down this business segment does not appear to be a valid option, since single wagon load transportation is connected with full train load business and intermodal traffic. This paper presents methods and techniques that were chosen to solve different problems of single wagon load transportation.
Highlights
Single wagon load traffic has been one of the basic offerings of railway companies ever since the railways were created
The work on the model development can be divided to several phases: 1. defining the input data – collecting, processing and analyzing the station data, 2. creation of an infrastructure model, 3. creation of a dynamic operation model, 4. experimenting with the simulation model, 5. analysis of the experiment results
We described the tools that can be used and that are developing to reach acceptable results in field of effective and competitive single wagon load transportation
Summary
Single wagon load traffic has been one of the basic offerings of railway companies ever since the railways were created. Over more than a century and a half, this product has undergone several major phases. For almost 100 years there was a constant increase in the volume of wagon loads transported. As road haulage began to grow in the 1960s, the number of single wagon loads carried started to decline. In the 1990s, the predominant view was that single wagon load traffic had no future and would be completely superseded by combined transport. The last few years, have seen a turning point, with interest in this service growing again, including among private railway operators [5]
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