One of the challenges for the railroad system to be able to be competitive, are the delays and how to reduce these delays. Therefore, it is important to look over the cost of accidents for the whole society. Accidents, involving humans and animals constitutes a lot of delays today, which impacts the whole railroad system, even far away from where the accident took place. In this study, delays have been investigated with the help of regression analysis. The purpose has been to evaluate time and cost for society of accidents involving humans and animals. The study has been conducted with a life-cycle-cost and reliability perspective. The approximated value of delay time for an accident involving humans has been set to 306 minutes, and to 18 minutes involving animals. It also showed that the time of the year doesn´t impact on how many minutes the train will be delayed if an accident occurs. Also, it would be interesting to investigate further different places and what can be done in specific places that suffer from a high number of delays to be able to improve the Swedish railroad even further. With the help of a calculation model, it has been calculated that accidents cost billions a year for the society. In the study, persons of interest at Trafikverket have been interviewed, and it shows that today's work with accidents manly targets what to do when an accident already has occurred, such as evacuating.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-380615 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Ekholm, Maria |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Tillämpad matematik och statistik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | UPTEC STS, 1650-8319 ; 19008 |
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