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In response to the trend for intermodal container heights to increase from 8 feet 6 inches to the "high cube" standard of 9 feet 6 inches, [18] the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) funded gauge clearance work, completed in November 2004, to allow 9'6" (2.9m) high containers to be carried on standard freight wagons on the F2N route and beyond. [19]
The Sydney Freight Network is a network of dedicated railway lines for freight in Sydney, Australia, linking the state's rural and interstate rail network with the city's main yard at Enfield and Port Botany.
Network Rail (NR) has an obligation, transferred from the abolished Strategic Rail Authority, to periodically produce Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) documents. [1] The original programme was approved by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) in June 2006; [2] under an early version of the programme all but two RUSs were scheduled to be completed by the end of Control Period 3 (CP3), 31 March ...
Rail freight...has grown rapidly in the last 10 years...this strategy forecasts further growth of up to 30 percent – the equivalent of an extra 240 freight trains per day – over the next ten years [to 2014/5 from 2004/5]. For this additional demand to be met by road freight...would lead to around an extra 1.5 million lorry journeys on the ...
Route Availability (RA) is the system by which the permanent way and supporting works (bridges, embankments, etc.) of the railway network of Great Britain are graded. All routes are allocated an RA number between 1 and 10. Rolling stock is also allocated an RA (again between 1 and 10) and the RA of a train is the highest RA of any of its ...
Route assignment, route choice, or traffic assignment concerns the selection of routes (alternatively called paths) between origins and destinations in transportation networks. It is the fourth step in the conventional transportation forecasting model, following trip generation , trip distribution , and mode choice .
An example of a collector-express freeway design, the route features four carriageways through Toronto. The A10 near Orléans , France, showing hard shoulder and emergency telephone. The broken demarcation line for the hard shoulder is specific to France, and serves as a safety reference mark for drivers: the advisory distance from the vehicle ...
[1] [c] Three-digit numbered highways are generally spur routes of parent highways; for example, U.S. Route 264 (US 264) is a spur off US 64. Some divided routes, such as US 19E and US 19W, exist to provide two alignments for one route. Special routes, which can be labeled as alternate, bypass or business, depending on the intended use, provide ...