Abstract
The article deals with the issue of access of freight carriers to services in railway stations. With the liberalization of the rail freight market, the number of carriers is gradually increasing. In this situation, infrastructure capacity is often insufficient. Therefore, it is necessary to set the order of access to services in railway stations. The article will use the process of analytical hierarchy as one of many methods of multicriteria analysis. Four important indicators will be selected for carriers: railway stations where the service of stabling tracks can be used, railway stations where rail scales are located, railway stations where it is possible to use the services of a shunting movement from the infrastructure manager, railway stations where the carrier can be using the services of a mobile workshop. At the end of the article, the order of access to these services will be compiled according to the order of importance for railway undertakings. A significant factor will also be an approximate quantification of the performance of individual carriers passing through the selected station.
Highlights
Liberalization of railway transport is a gradual process which began at the end of the last century [1]
An example is an article by the author team of Associate Professor Nedeliakova, which discusses the synergistic effects of the liberalization of the rail transport market [2]
In spite of guarantees of non-discriminatory access to the railway network, in practice it often happens that the services of the infrastructure manager are accessed by a carrier whose 100% share is owned by the state in preference
Summary
Liberalization of railway transport is a gradual process which began at the end of the last century [1]. In spite of guarantees of non-discriminatory access to the railway network, in practice it often happens that the services of the infrastructure manager are accessed by a carrier whose 100% share is owned by the state in preference This situation results in a deterioration in the quality of the services provided, both for railway undertakings and for customers. There exist some decision-making tools of mathematical statistics, namely Saaty’s method ( known as Analytic Hierarchy Process—AHP) and interpretive structural modeling (ISM) analysis [4] which facilitate decision making It is a decision-making process where in a given relevant environment (in this case, the environment of railway transport) multiple subjects of decision making select a certain solution out of a bigger number of possible solutions. The output of this evaluation is often the optimization of various processes [5]
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