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M. Wahlborg

Abstract

In a common project with participants from Germany (DB Netz), France (SNCF), Netherlands (Prorail), Austria (ÖBB), Switzerland (SBB), Czech (CD), Italy and Sweden (Banverket) a leaflet, UIC 405-1R, has been written for capacity calculations. The chapters are introduction, definitions, calculation of capacity consumption and application. Banverket has calculated capacity consumption manually in the annual report for year 2001 and for year 2002 according to the leaflet. In Banverket’s investment plan 2003 – 2015 capacity problems have been estimated for the years 2003 and 2015. Input has been traffic demand, calculation of capacity consumption and traffic simulations. In the project UIC Capacity Management, capacity consumption is now being calculated for different bottlenecks around Europe. Banverket is studying the l

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