Railways and Possible Growth of Oil Transportation - Simulating Railway Yard and Railway Track Capacity Needs in
Railways are generally offering low cost and environmental friendly transportation mode choice for raw material transports from raw material source (e.g. oil, coal, metals etc.)into the sea port. Quite often in oil transports railways compete side-by-side with pipelines,and therefore productivity and frequency are the main concerns, and eventually infrastructure is tried to be utilized in the best possible manner. In this research paper we present oil transportation infrastructure investment need simulation in an environment of Estonian railways; still today EU member Estonia is one of the most important Russian / Kazakh transit oil harbours through its port of Muuga. If we use historical data to predict the future transportation volumes, it could be possible that oil transportation volumes continue their growth. Our macro-data based simulation study shows that in a case of volume growth railway yard in harbour needs to be enlarged within two distinct phases, and quite probably additional tracks need to be built for the railroad network leading to the harbour, or current ones entirely renewed (that transportation speeds could increase).
Infrastructure oil transportation railways system dynamics simulation.
Estonia
Olli-Pekka Hilmola Acting Professor of Logistics, PhD, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Kouvola Research Unit, Prikaatintie 9, FIN-45100 Kouvola, Finland
国际会议
2007 Conference on Systems Science, Management Science and System Dynamics(第二届系统科学、管理科学与系统动力学国际会议)
上海
英文
693-702
2007-10-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）