Title: High speed rail Lisbon – Madrid: an innovative method
Abstract: In the recent decades, high speed rail investments have been a subject of great interest from European Union. Given that these investments usually involve large public funding, once decided, it is really important to plan the system in the most efficient way. The motivation for the study meets the interest in the MATE – Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration – method and its applicability in the development process for the several products and situations. The method, first developed at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), has been shown to enable a better conceptual decision-making in aerospace system applications; however it has never been applied to the analysis of a transportation problem, especially as in this analysis of a high speed rail project. This paper describes different applicability of MATE method to analyse the future Lisbon- Madrid high speed rail line. The study was part of the EXPRESS research project, set up under the MIT-Portugal Program. The work done addresses the feasibility of the introduction of cargo on the operation of this line admitting that the rolling stock will be of the same type as the passenger’s rolling stock. Containerized cargo will only use open slots beyond passengers’ service. This application use´s integrated technical data, both from different rail operators and from stakeholders that have no direct role in decisions regarding the rail system but have a strong interest in taking part of the high speed rail line decision process. The feasibility of the MATE method for dealing with this complex transportation issue and associated constraints will be discussed in the paper together with the results obtained.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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