PAŘIL, Vilém and Hana FITZOVÁ. Conventional versus high-speed: Is it worth the effort?. Online. In J. Pombo. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance. Edinburgh: Civil-Comp Press, 2023, p. 1-6. ISSN 2753-3239. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.4203/ccc.1.29.2.
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Original name Conventional versus high-speed: Is it worth the effort?
Authors PAŘIL, Vilém (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Hana FITZOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Edinburgh, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance, p. 1-6, 6 pp. 2023.
Publisher Civil-Comp Press
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 50703 Transport planning and social aspects of transport
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
WWW paper abstract proceedings
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14560/23:00131136
Organization unit Faculty of Economics and Administration
ISSN 2753-3239
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.4203/ccc.1.29.2
Keywords in English High-speed railway; modernisation costs; effectiveness; travel time savings
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Abstract
Our paper aims to contribute to the debate on conventional versus HSR in small countries like the Czech Republic, with a well-developed railway network on the one hand and relatively short distances for significant potential time savings on the other hand. The research is based on the relevant investment railway projects implemented during 2007–2013 and 2014–2020. Railway corridors were chosen to cover all open-access routes in the Czech Republic. They cover routes from the capital city of Prague to all regional centres in the eastern part of the Czech Republic – two metropolitan centres of Brno and Ostrava and two regional centres of Olomouc and Zlín. We analyse the impacts of the implemented investment projects on the change of the average travel times and their costs. Our results consider time savings converted to one minute of travel time saved per hundred kilometres of the rail route. We document that modernising conventional railways is a realistic option for a small country like the Czech Republic; on the other hand, HSR represents a rather theoretical option, as the costs of construction are extremely high, and potential benefits in the form of the increased ridership are unclear before it is finished. However, our results correspond to the expected ridership of 10.818 million passengers a year from Prague to Brno in 30 years to achieve economic effectiveness. Regarding daily ridership, we conclude that cost-effective implementation of HSR expects the demand growth from 13,400 to at least 30,000 passengers.
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