Possible Tram-Train System in Bratislava Line Old Bridge – Railway Station Petrzalka

EasyChair Preprint 8226

Abstract

Currently, Bratislava is experiencing massive development and great activity of developers. The city is expanding and acquiring much higher masses representing people in its down town. And these people are always moving. With the development of the city, it is necessary to place emphasis on the development of public transport. Public transport must be ecological, economical and accessible to all social groups of the population. In the conditions of Bratislava, the city has the opportunity to change the modal split in favour of public transport and thus end the decline from the early 90´s of the last century. Rail track transport is one of the ecological types of public transport and is part of smart cities in the area of ​​serving the land use in cities. The current rail track public transport in Bratislava is covered by tramway and train infrastructure. Train transport ensures the relocation of people from the surrounding municipalities of Bratislava. Tramway transport ensures the relocation of people in the city. There is a need to connect the performance of tram and train PT. This affects the time length of the travelling of people. The foundations for the creation of a dual rail transport system in an urbanized area are prepared in Bratislava. The goal of the article is present the technical solution of double gauge system for operation and the traffic engineering and planning works for decision making. It was done a huge professional and expert works which one is against the political an administration “decision making”. These experiences from Central Europe are presented.

Keyphrases: "public transport", "railway design", "traffic modeling", "tram-train"

@booklet{EasyChair:8226,
  author    = {Tibor Schlosser and Gabriel Bálint and Matus Korfant and Peter Schlosser},
  title     = {Possible Tram-Train System in Bratislava Line Old Bridge – Railway Station Petrzalka},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 8226},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}