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TCRP Report 52: Joint Operation of Light Rail Transit Or Diesel Multiple Unit Vehicles with Railroads CHAPTER 7: EUROPEAN JOINT USE EXPERIENCE 7.1 OVERVIEW shared track arrangement. These stages are currently: While North America pioneered joint rail use by a variety of carriers as described 1. Planning/preparation (overcoming earlier (Chapter 1 - "historical obstacles and reaching agreement) - precedents"), the newest and most Luxembourg innovative forms of joint use are found 2. Beginning joint use (initial shared overseas. European and Pacific Rim joint track operations) - Saarbrücken track use practices are specialized and different enough to warrant separate 3. Expanding/Refining Matured research and treatment in this research. shared operations (Full integration, Emphasis has been placed in understanding expansion, and diverse operations) - fully the nature and detail of selected joint Karlsruhe use operations. All known contemporary western European joint use situations are The purpose in presenting overseas joint inventoried, but only three European case use experience on two continents is not to studies (Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken, and dwell on their operating and physical Luxembourg) are described in detail and characteristics. These have been described another eighteen are briefly profiled. In the in the trade press, in the case of Karlsruhe, Pacific Rim, 170 rail operators were very extensively. Far less is known about inventoried. Six case studies were selected Pacific Rim experience, therefore more and surveyed for description. Other notable detail has been allocated to the Oriental joint use examples in the Orient are briefly System case studies. To the extent that profiled. physical plant and operations reveal the nature of joint use, they are described here. In both Europe and the Orient, joint use is What is less known about these three accompanied by major reforms in the highlighted case studies is the way they organization of railroad institutions and confronted planning, institutional, and public transportation systems. These major regulatory obstacles to joint use. These changes permeate every sector, mode and issues in Europe and the Pacific Rim are jurisdiction of these transport enterprises. the very same types as those being cited in Understanding these reforms is essential to North America as preventing joint use of comprehending how joint use is achieved tracks by railroads and rail transit. and applied in a variety of operating environments. Joint use literature research focused on the Karlsruhe, Germany and Saarbrücken, 7.2 EUROPEAN JOINT USE EXPERIENCE Germany (with short segment in France). A number of a Study Team participated in Three European joint use rail transit case the planning and design of both of these studies (Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken and operations to assist the two transit Luxembourg) are highlighted because each operators in developing joint use facilities is unique, though each also imparts similar and services. The literature search also lessons in shared track experience. These investigated German Railway Ministry and three joint use operations also represent Railway Association documents on shared three basic stages in the evolution of a tracks. Additionally, the team contacted Chapter 7 — Page 1 the Consul General of Luxembourg to 7.2.1 Joint Use Beginnings in Germany obtain information on the newest proposed joint use operation, to be centered in the In Germany, to make public rail transport metropolitan area around the City of more attractive, methods were explored to Luxembourg. expand coverage, preserve and improve service, and reduce costs. Joint operation Lesser-known, smaller-scale but important systems have arisen as a new strategy on examples of joint use in France, the the basis of these objectives. Some joint Benelux, Switzerland, and Germany are use operations on small scales pre-existed. included where they demonstrate Joint use, dual-gauge track, and additional diversity in the nature and dualvoltage equipment (18.8kv AC, variety of joint use facilities and practices. 25H3/650Vac and 550 Vdc) date back Eighteen of these "Other Examples" are almost 90 years at Karlsruhe! Early efforts presented at the conclusion of this chapter. to achieve larger-scale joint use were based These profiles are organized as short, one- on electrification of railroad branch lines paragraph descriptions, in the event that with a light rail system line voltage. (The independent researchers wish to focus on LRT routes and vehicles were joint use in particular geographical areas. correspondingly adapted to railroad infrastructure in the cities of Cologne and Finally, planning is advancing in 21 Karlsruhe). Later, dual voltage railcars additional metropolitan areas for were designed that could operate both on "regionalization" of rail passenger the electrified routes at the German Rail operations. The regionalization process line (DBAG) high voltage and on transit confronts issues of shared facilities, joint low voltage light rail routes. The Karlsruhe use of tracks, and reciprocal running experience is instructive. Being the earliest practices accompanied by institutional joint use application, it demonstrates the reform. These 21 areas planning joint use most complete and varied evolution of are listed without detailed information. In joint use practice. Meanwhile, the town of this manner, all current western Europe and Zwickau has planned to operate light- Pacific Rim shared track operations are at weight short-distance diesel railcars least inventoried. (Category 2 DMUs) into the towns on LRT The three European joint use case studies, tracks. Düren is the most notable pioneer in Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken, and Luxembourg using these light rail derivative DMUs in are uniformly structured with "Overview," joint operation on shared track. "System Evolution" and "System Description." Lessons learned from these The infrastructure of the joint use dual are treated largely in Chapter 9, Findings mode system is subject to separate (from and Conclusions. The three case studies railroad) BOStrab regulations, and if exemplify how urban areas achieve new or necessary with corresponding waivers and expanded rail transit using shared track exceptional regulations. Moreover, the dual concepts. system vehicles must fulfill the regulations of both railroad (EBO) and rail transit Before addressing case studies, a general (BOStrab) systems, if necessary with overview is presented from translated "exceptional permissions" (waivers), and document research. they shall be accepted by both railroad and rail transit operators. Chapter 7 — Page 2 7.2.2 Shared Track Legal Bases initiative in 1992. All of these initiatives were in the Karlsruhe area. It laid the In principle, two different legal bases apply foundation for subsequent LRT joint use to the construction and operation of rail applications in Karlsruhe and Cologne, and transport systems in Germany: the German ushered in the first LRT derivative DMU Federal Regulations governing the joint use on the Dürener Kreisbahn using Construction and Operation of Railways RegioSprinters in 1995-96. (EBO) for the railroads and the German Federal Regulations on the Construction Because not enough data on accident and Operation of Light Rail Transit occurrences on specific routes was Systems (BOStrab) for the tramways– available, the Basic Study used "typical" which also include the metros and the light cases (or general accident data). In rail systems, but not railroad derivative researching available accident data, the regional rail transit systems ("S-Bahn"). research study team found a similar dearth of data in the U.S. as explained in Chapter Several organizations figure prominently 6. This condition in Germany caused the with the means of dealing with shared Ministry of Railways to contract for a track issues. Regulations are promulgated detailed Risk Analysis Study, which was by the German Federal Ministry of completed in February of 1995. This Transport. UITP (International Union of pioneering analysis was called Expert Public Transport) covers research and Opinion on the Use of Light-Weight, operating issues. VDV (Association of Short-Distance Rail Cars in Joint German Transport Undertakings), is a Operation with EBO [Standard Railway] transit trade group, roughly comparable to Vehicles on Public Transport Railway APTA in North America). Lines, 2/95, German Ministry of Railways. This is referred to by its short title as the As the regulations on two major vehicle "Supplementary Report." Note the initial types are very different, special regulations use of "expert opinion" as a surrogate for were established for the joint operation, the extensive accident data, which had so-called Regulations on Light-Weight improved in quality since 1993 but was Short-Distance Railcars. This covers rail still considered insufficient. It was buses, or "Schienenbusse;" light DMUs; intended at that time that a nationwide risk and LRVs in dual mode service. study would avoid having to do "expensive individual studies." The study later 7.2.3 Evolution of German Railway Research and acknowledged that the (national standard) Regulations for Joint Use safety measures are not fully justified in every individual case, and "there was a What is referred to as the "The Basic possibility of deviating from the national Study" is the pioneering Study of the Use requirements which could be narrowly of Light Railway Vehicles (LRV) in Mixed linked to the specific individual Service with Vehicles [Complying with investigations." Localized risk analysis is Regulations for Railway Vehicles by therefore,
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