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• establishing a timetable for each day (planning period of 6 or 12 h), where operational planning and the interconnection of tools for timetabling and capacity planning with operational planning systems will be supported;

Capacity allocation cycle using proposed progressive methodological approaches with regard to the railway

• expressing capacity as the ability to meet the requirements of specific train paths while guaranteeing the stability of the timetable operational model; and

• planning infrastructure configuration based on required capacity through

Sizing the railway infrastructure, operational performance and quality of opera-

tion are interrelated. If two variables are known, the third can be derived. For example, on the Prague-Ostrava route, the current trend of shortening the length of long-distance passenger trains but increasing their frequency as a result of the liberalization of the rail market ("open access") significantly affects the capacity. From this situation, there is a clear need to plan a transport infrastructure for the future scope and concept of transport. Emergency events are a problematic point in the framework of the liberalization of rail transport, which is related to maintaining the number of traction units to the minimum possible. As a rule, RU does not have suitable tractive vehicles for diversion routes. The former unitary state railways had tractive vehicles for independent traction (multi-system locomotives), which could

In order to create harmonized conditions for access to infrastructure, it is

important to correctly determine the optimum capacity of the railway

infrastructure measures.

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be used for such haulages (not only for freight).

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infrastructure capacity.

The chapter is supported by the VEGA Agency by the Project 1/0509/19 "Optimizing the use of railway infrastructure with support of modal split forecasting," which is solved at Faculty of Operations and Economics of Transport and Communication, University of Žilina.
