Quantitative Analysis of the Possible Sites of a New Danube Bridge to Bypass Budapest on Rail (Part 2)

Abstract

Since 1920, almost all the traffic on rail crossing the Danube in Hungary, crosses it in Budapest via the Southern Railway Bridge which makes it overloaded. This is a very disadvantageous situation not only for commercial shipping but also for military uses as there is certain heavy military equipment that can only be transported via rail.In our two-part article, we examine the locations of new bridges that could be alternatives to bypass Budapest and thus to reduce the traffic load on the railway lines of the capital. In this second part, we examine the situation on the river Tisza by simulating the existence of several bridge alternatives, both newly built and developed existing ones. We also suggest a combined way of development to treat the capacity changes in the context of the whole network by building two new bridges, one on each river.