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The Rail-Based Mode and Its Systems: Components and Performances

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The rail -based landside access mode connecting airports with their catchment areas includes the systems such as the streetcar/tramway and LRT (Light Rail Transit ), subway/metro , regional /intercity conventional rail , HSR (High-Speed Rail ), TRM (TransRapid Maglev ), still conceptual most recent HL (Hyperloop ), and PRT (Personal Rapid Transit ) system .

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  1. 1.

    Rail lines with tracks are physical entities connecting airports with their catchment areas. Route is a path of a given vehicle /train operating along the given line constrained by the origin and destination station /terminal .

  2. 2.

    Trains ’ power vehicles get energy from the power supply system enabling the operation/movement of the trains .

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    This is a proportionate reducing in the unit and/or total costs by an increased level of output, in this case length of the LRT line /network .

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    Leq/LAeq(dBA) (Equivalent Noise Level ) is the constant noise level resulting in the same total sound energy produced over a given period of time . As a single parameter , it represents a varying sound source as a single number over a given period of time .

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    The conventional rail systems provide transport services to their users/passengers, generally at the maximum speeds up to 160 km /h or lower. The regional rail systems usually operate between towns and cities in addition to providing accessibility to the airports included in the regional rail networks. The have less frequent stops than their streetcar/tramway, LRT, and subway/metro counterparts including those along the lines connecting the airports . At the intercity rail systems referring to the express passenger train services covering longer distances than the regional trains the airports included in the long-haul intercity rail network can be one of the rare stations between any pair urban/city agglomerations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_rail_link#Europe/).

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    In the year 1972, the ballastless ‘slab track ’ had been developed and applied to the Sanyo Shinkansen line ; in the year 2007, the ‘slab track ’ was used for 1244-km-long line , which shared about 57% of the Shinkansen network (Takai 2013).

  7. 7.

    The Tokaido Shinkansen line /route of the length of 552.6 km connects Tokyo and Shin Osaka station is free of the level crossings. The trains operate at the maximum speed of 270 km/h covering the line /route in 2 h and 25 min. The route/line capacity is 13 trains /h/direction. The number of passengers carried is about 386 thousand/day and 141 million/year (the year 2011) (JR 2012).

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