Evaluation Trans-Siberian railway
Business case for new Trans-Siberian railway corridor services
TML and
The WCM was developed at TNO in 2008. The main function of the model is to calculate the distribution of global freight flows over competing routing alternatives. These routing alternatives may include sea routes as well as land bridges such as the Trans-Siberian railway.
The study for FESCO included the following steps:
- Alignment of the base year model with data from FESCO and MITSUI
- Development the baseline forecast for a future year and scenarios
- Application of the model and interpretation of results
TML was responsible for the technical project management and established the communication between the transport modelling software ‘OmniTRANS’ and the World Container Model. OmniTRANS was used for data management, network editing and the presentation of the results, the actual calculations were executed by the existing WCM.
The study shows – per NSTR-commodity and in function of the competing maritime tariffs – the price elasticity and the optimal price to maximize the profit of transporting the goods across the Trans-Siberian Railway.
reports
Confidential
period
2011
funded by
FESCO
researchers
Kristof Carlier
partners
TNO
contact
Kristof Carlier
+32 16 31.77.36