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one train. However, with the current train consignees or between important freight 2. Der Eisenbahningenieur 04/2008, S.72:
length limitation of 740 metres only centres by means of effective marshalling – Längere Testzüge nach Dänemark
relatively few train combinations could be for example with TCS. 3. Schienennetz-Benutzungsbedingungen
interesting from a productive point of view. The freight cars have an automatic der DB Netz AG (SNB), Abschnitt 6
In order of being profitable on the initial central buffer coupling and concomitantly Entgeltgrundsätze sowie
and final legs, a train should be longer than an electrical trough-passing wire, enabling Trassenpreissystem, Liste der Entgelte
400 metres. If the maximum train length them to use the electro-pneumatic brake, to der DB Netz AG 2008 für Trassen
would be raised to 1,500 metres (or more), execute automatic brake tests, to control the (http://www.db.de/site/bahn/de/
TD would suddenly become a primary train integrity and to monitor the condition geschaefte/infrastruktur__
option for increasing the economy of rail of the transported goods. schiene/infrastruktur.html)
freight transportation. The quality of freight railways is similar 4. Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und
to that of road freight just as the system Technologie: GZ 1000 – Betrieb mit
‘‘The predicted growth of
costs. The majority of the goods are längeren Güterzügen
containerised and there are transhipment (http://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Redaktion/
rail freight will soon
facilities (road–rail) close to freight PDF/S-T/transport-logistic-
exceed the capacity of villages as well as a number of shippers’ gz1000,property=pdf,bereich=bmwi,spr
today’s railway system’’
railway sidings connected to the main ache=de,rwb=true.pdf, Download
railway network. 23.04.2008)
The railway network is consistently
The Train Coupling and Sharing (TCS) divided according to the concept Netz21.
system is still more consequent with the There are exclusively dedicated tracks for
principle of coupling train modules. Groups long-distance passenger traffic, for urban
of wagons with their own traction and suburban traffic and for freight. All
(TCS-modules) are coupled together in network sections are restriction-free and
intermediate points with other TCS-modules working at full capacity.
that match in time, location and direction. Finally, the network administrator can
biography
After running a part of their individual cover its expenditures for maintenance,
routes jointly they split into several replacement investments and new
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen
TCS-modules again. In an ideal case, this constructions of infrastructure. This
Siegmann
could happen while normal running or is possible by rationalisation and
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Siegmann is a full
during short stops in sidetracks. With this increased traffic.
professor at the Berlin Institute of Technology
system, it would be possible to avoid the The last section has portrayed a vision.
(BIT) since 1997. He is Head of the Chair of
Track and Railway Operations. He has been
time consuming stops at the marshalling But all technologies for this vision are
the Project Manager of several research and
yards on dedicated relations without available and the political will to support
consulting projects especially in freight
transport, modelling, network optimisation,
consuming too much traces. Evidently, TCS the environment-friendly railway is still
utilisation and development of application
systems require an automatic coupling and given. The goal should be a freight railway
software in railway transport. Prof. Siegmann
is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council
a locomotive remote control system for the that works without subsidies and which
of the German Federal Ministry of Transport,
distributed traction. achieves a modal share twice as high as
Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS).
Own investigations resulted in a door- today. It therefore requires the
to-door speed of 50 kilometres per hour encouragement of the driving forces to
that could be reached with TCS, which is pursue this large goal within a long-range
comparable to the speed of the existing strategy. For this, privatisation is not
block trains or road traffic. In contrast to necessary. The pressure on the freight
this, single wagon traffic between railway market should already be high enough.
sidings and over rail yards reaches a A private railway undertaking will never –
commercial speed of less than 20 kilometres with or without the network – have such
per hour. good terms of financing as is the case today.
biography
So, let’s get on with it!
Vision
Helge Stuhr
The productive freight railway runs extra- References Helge Stuhr studied Transportation Systems
long trains with double-stack container cars 1. Investitionsrahmenplan bis 2010 für die
with the main focus on Transportation
Planning and Operation at the Berlin Institute
and high capacity wagons with at least 25 Verkehrsinfrastruktur des Bundes (IRP), of Technology (BIT) until the end of 2007.
tonnes load per axle, powered by multiple Anlage 3, Bundesministerium für
Since then, he has worked as a Research
Associate at the Chair of Track and Railway
traction. The trains run over long distances Verkehr, Bau- und Stadtentwicklung,
Operations of BIT.
either directly between shippers and April 2007
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