Principles of Logistics Applied to Railway Passenger Transport

Abstract

Abstract. Main challenge of logistics is delivering right assortment of products in exact amount, to exact place, in exact time, ecologically and for exact price. Logistics deals with freight transport but when the word 'products' is changed to 'passengers', then many principles can be applied to passenger transport. Railway passenger transport is the key part of passenger transport system, so it is necessary to optimize it on logistics philosophy at first.

Approach Methodology for Comprehensive Assessing the Public Passenger Transport Timetable Performances at a Regional Scale

“…The issue of public passenger transport quality assessment, to a certain extent, has already been addressed in several publications [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Nevertheless, results of these studies point only to partial evaluations of the quality of individual transport sections, while there is lack of reference and link to the individual timetable evaluations as a whole.…”

“…It can be stated that, from a spatial point of view, the transport network intended to serve as regular passenger transport is rather well developed and sufficiently covers transport areas of public interest. Compared to the EU average, however, the quality of examined transport network effect of the transport network utilization on optimization algorithms [1][2][3]12], whilst others deal with periodic transport modes on transport networks and their optimization [6,7]. For instance, authors in [13,14] present a particular transport network, specifically railway transport infrastructure in regard to the quality evaluation.…”

“…Its practical applicability consists in comparison of existing and proposed timetables, which is considered one of the crucial factors in terms of public passenger transport quality.Sustainability 2019, 11, 3532 2 of 18 in the Slovak Republic is poor, in particular in regard to demands placed on it. Regional differences in the quality of transport network, which has far-reaching consequences in terms of increasing economic and social disparities among individual parts of the country, are also apparent [4][5][6][7]. Previous research studies [8][9][10][11][12] have confirmed that the quality of transport infrastructure is considered a crucial element which makes decisions about the foreign investment allocation very often.…”

“…The objective of this study was to fill the mentioned gap within assessment and set up an innovative and comprehensive view of assessing the quality of transport network connectivity, thus supporting operation of high-quality passenger transport connections, which represent meaningful and attractive alternative to private car transport. Outcomes of the proposed methodology may serve as a fundamental for ministries, carriers and customers in regard to public passenger transport [3,6].The purpose of the paper is to create and verify a methodological procedure to evaluate the quality of connectivity on a particular transport network, thus generally contributing to the formation of an efficient evaluation method of integrated transport system in the regional territory. The proposed procedure is also intended to support the creation of high-quality transport connections in public passenger transport at a regional scale with a fixed timetable, which will represent a meaningful and attractive alternative to private car transport.…”

“…The objective of this study was to fill the mentioned gap within assessment and set up an innovative and comprehensive view of assessing the quality of transport network connectivity, thus supporting operation of high-quality passenger transport connections, which represent meaningful and attractive alternative to private car transport. Outcomes of the proposed methodology may serve as a fundamental for ministries, carriers and customers in regard to public passenger transport [3,6].…”