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RAIL TRANSPORT & ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
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Topics
• Transport modes• Modal competition• Passenger or freight?• Transportation today
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Transport Modes
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TRANSPORT MODES…CONT’D
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TRANSPORT MODES…CONT’D
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TRANSPORT MODES…CONT’D
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TRANSPORT MODES…CONT’D
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TRANSPORT MODES…CONT’D
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Performance Comparison for Selected Freight Modes
Barge
Hopper car
100 car train unit
Semi-trailer truck
1500 Tons52,500 Bushels453,600 Gallons
100 Tons3,500 Bushels30,240 Gallons
10,000 Tons350,000 Bushels3,024,000 Gallons
26 Tons; 910 Bushels7,865 Gallons9,000 for a tanker truck
124 tons
Capacity
5
57.7(865.4 for 15 barges in tow)
Truck EquivalencyVehicle
3.8
384.6
1
Post-panamax containership5,000 TEU 2,116
9,330VLCC
300,000 tons2 million barrels of oil
747-400F
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Comparison of the Relative Efficiencies of Rail and Trucking in the us
Mode Fuel Consumption
Infrastructure Capacity
Costs Safety
Railroad 455 ton-miles per gallon
216 million tons per mainline per year
2.7 cents per ton-mile
0.61 fatalities per billion ton-miles; 12.4 incidents per billion ton-miles
Trucking 105 ton-miles per gallon
37.8 million tons per lane per year
5.0 cents per ton-mile
1.45 fatalities per billion ton-miles; 36.4 incidents per billion ton-miles
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Modal Competition
A
B
Mode
1 23
A
B
Infrastructure / Route
A
B
A
B
4 5
6
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B
Market Area
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TRANSPORTATION TODAY
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Rail Transportation
• 17th century – move material in quarries & mines• Major role in economic development• Rail line
– Resources– Servicing regional economies– Achieve territorial control
• High level of economic & territorial control– Monopoly – Europe– Oligopoly – North America
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RAIL TRANSPORTATION…CONT’D
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Geographical Settings of Rail Lines
Penetration LinesLocal / Regional NetworksTranscontinental Lines
Nation A
Nation B
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Types Rail Corridors
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Economy of rail tptn
• Large qtty of freight & pax – reasonable speed– Pax service – high population– Freight traffic – bulk, agricultural &
industrial raw material• Low energy consumption• High capital cost
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Economy of rail tpt (2)
• Interurban pax tptn– Japan, China, India
• High speed pax rail – Europe• North America
– Freight – dominant– Pax – major urban corridors
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Performance of Rail and Road Transportation
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SpatialPerformance(t/km/m2/day)
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economy of rail tptn
• Impact of globalization– Land bridges– Influenced by pattern of energy consumption– Integration rail & maritime– Extended metropolitan region– Container traffic
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Technical changes in rail tptn
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Bypassing Effect of a High Speed Railway
A
B
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Landbridges
• Use the land freight as a means of transport connection - continuity of a maritime segment
• History– Silk road (15th century)– 1st modern landbridge = 1880s by Canadian Pacific
Railway : to improve shipping time of high value Asian commodities
– Associated with intermodal transportation
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Landbridges (2)
• Characteristic of landbridge– Single bill of lading
issued by freight forwarder that covers the entire intermodal journey
– The goods remain in the same container for the entire journey
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TYPES OF LANDBRIDGES
• Landbridge– the rail system is used as a link between a foreign origin and
destination. The continental mass is simply used as a link (bridge) between two maritime systems.
– an intermodal container shipped by ocean vessel from country A to country B, land bridges across an entire body of land/ country/ continent, en route.
– the transport mode is almost exclusively rail because it offers a faster long distance service.
– e.g., a container shipment from China to Germany, is loaded onto a ship in China, unloads at a Los Angeles (California) port and travels via rail transport to a New York/New Jersey port, and loads on a ship for Hamburg. Also see Eurasian Land Bridge.
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TYPES OF LANDBRIDGES (2)• Minibridge
– it involves a foreign origin but the destination is a port reached from another port of the same continental mass.
– An intermodal container shipped by ocean vessel from country A to country B, passes across a large portion of land in either country A or B.
– e.g., a container shipment from China to New York (New York), is loaded onto a ship in China, unloads at a Los Angeles (California) port and travels via rail transport to New York (New York), the final destination.
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TYPES OF LANDBRIDGES (3)• Microbridge
– it involves a link between a foreign origin and an inland destination via a port of entry
– An intermodal container shipped by ocean vessel from country A to country B, passes across a large portion of land to reach an interior inland destination.
– took more time to become implemented because collaboration (such as joint ventures) among companies of different transport sectors are needed
– e.g., a container shipment from China to Denver (Colorado), is loaded onto a ship in China, unloads at a Los Angeles (California) port and travels via rail transport to Denver (Colorado), the final destination.[14][15]
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