Title: Cost-effectiveness review of railroad electrification. Final report
Abstract: A comparison was made between the costs of electric and diesel-electric motive power to haul traffic projected for the 1975-2005 time period over a hypothetical network of high density mainline routes carrying about 50% of the 1975 traffic. The routes were selected from the Federal Railroad Administration Base Rail Network. Input data on prices, operating conditions, and route profiles represented averages for four regions of the United States rather than the specific conditions of actual routes. The cost estimates focused primarily on social resource costs from the perspective of national economic efficiency. Sensitivity tests were performed to determine the impact of a variety of assumptions and data values on the comparative costs of the two systems. It was concluded that electrification offers 9% savings in discounted costs for about 30% of the routes examined covering about 43% of the route miles in the hypothetical network.
Publication Year: 1973
Publication Date: 1973-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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