High-Speed Rail Transport Systems: Analysing, Modelling, and Evaluating
by Research Professor Milan Janić, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract: This keynote speech presents an approach to analyzing, modelling, and evaluating three HS (High Speed) rail-based transport systems: High-Speed Rail (HSR), Trans Rapid Maglev (TRM) and Hyperloop (HL). A methodology consisting of two components has been developed for this purpose. The first component includes analytical models of indicators of performances for the systems to be analyzed. Given the characteristics of infrastructure and rolling stock representing the systems’ infrastructural and technical/technological performances, the indicators of operational, economic, environmental, and social performances have been defined and modelled respecting the interests and preferences of particular actors/stakeholders involved. These actors/stakeholders comprise users/passengers, the systems’ transport operators, local, regional, and national authorities and investors, and community/population members. The other component includes the SAW (Simple Additive Weighting) method which uses these indicators as criteria for a multi-criteria evaluation of the systems. The methodology has been applied to a real case study assuming that the three HS systems operate exclusively according to the “what-if’ scenario approach. The results indicate that, under the given conditions, the HL emerges as a preferable alternative compared to its TRM and HSR counterparts.
About presenter: Dr Milan Janić is a transport and traffic engineer and planner. At present, he is a Research Professor at the Faculty of Traffic and Transport Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. Previously, he was Senior Researcher at the Transport & Planning Department of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences and a Leader of the Research Program in the OTB Research Institute at Delft University of Technology (Delft, The Netherlands), Manchester Metropolitan University and Loughborough University (UK), and the Institute of Transport of the Slovenian Railways (Slovenia).
Dr Janić has been involved in many research and planning projects at both national and international scale for almost forty years. He has also published numerous papers in the peer-reviewed scientific and professional journals. In addition to contributing to many edited books, he has been the author of ten book monographs, including: ‘Resilience, Robustness, and Vulnerability of Transport Systems: Analysis, Modelling, and Practice’; ‘System Analysis and Modelling in Air Transport: Demand, Capacity, Quality of Services, Economic, and Sustainability’ ‘Advanced Transport Systems: Analysis, Modelling, and Evaluation of Performances’, ‘Greening Airports: Advanced Technology and Operations’, and the co-author of the book ‘Transportation Engineering: Theory, Practice, and Modelling’, 1st and 2nd Ed.).
As well, Dr Janić is and used to be a member of Editorial Boards of several transport research-related journals, and the international associations and conferences. Dr Janić was also among Stanford’s World’s Top two percent scientists during the period 2019-2020.
