| Title | Integrated planning for railway operation statistics and performance evaluation |
| Dept | Transportation Operations and Management Division |
| Year | 2016 |
| Month | 10 |
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| Summary | Currently in Taiwan and in many other countries, most basic data are generated within the railway system during operation, and information flows to outside users through the condensed form of statistics and indicators. Information treated in this process is hard to fuse with each other, and railway agencies lack the means to control their usage once released. As such, data users have to go back to the railway operators when they need customized statistics, even when their need is close to those already provided. At the same time, railway operators are often reluctant to release information. Moreover, slight differences in the definition of similar indexes frequently make comparison among different railway systems very difficult.
In light of these drawbacks, this study proposes the establishment of a relational data platform as a common source of all railway statistics. Under this scheme, railway operators upload detailed records, including the scheduled and actual departing and arrival times of every train service, the travel records of every passenger within the system, environment monitoring data, and other data. The system provides customized statistics to authorized users and the general public, where the content and data resolution provided depends on the level of authorization. The system is also able to regularly generate reports and deliver them automatically. We expect that the creation of such a system will eliminate the obstacles resulting from index definition variances, save considerable information-processing related funding and other valuable resources for railway agencies, provide a unified statistic source for all users, serve as an accurate and reliable data archive, effectively enhance the usability of precious real data, and be able to support numerous value-adding applications in the future. |
| Post date | 2016/10/25 |
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