{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-model-for-pricing-freight-rail-transport","title":"A model for pricing freight rail transport access costs: economic and environmental perspectives","arxiv_id":"2504.04257","date":"2025-04-05","proceeding":null,"authors":["Ricardo García-Ródenas","Esteve Codina","Luis Cadarso","María Luz López-García","José Ángel Martín-Baos"],"abstract":"In deregulated railway markets, efficient management of infrastructure charges is essential for sustaining railway systems. This study sets out a method for infrastructure managers to price access to railway infrastructure, focusing on freight transport in deregulated market contexts. The proposed methodology integrates negative externalities directly into the pricing structure in a novel way, balancing economic and environmental objectives. it develops a dynamic freight flow model to represent the railway system, using a logit model to capture the modal split between rail and road modes based on cost, thereby reflecting demand elasticity. The model is temporally discretized, resulting in a mesoscopic, discrete-event simulation framework, integrated into an optimization model that determines train path charges based on real-time capacity and demand. This approach aims both to maximize revenue for the infrastructure manager and to reduce the negative externalities of road transport. The methodology is demonstrated through a case study on the Mediterranean Rail Freight Corridor, showcasing the scale of access charges derived from the model. Results indicate that reducing track-access charges can yield substantial societal benefits by shifting freight demand to rail. This research provides a valuable framework for transport policy, suggesting that externality-sensitive infrastructure charges can promote more efficient and sustainable use of railway infrastructure.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04257v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.04257v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-model-for-pricing-freight-rail-transport","repo_url":"https://github.com/RicardoGarciaRodenas/TAC-access-charge-for-freight-rail-transport","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}