Dear all,
I would like to give some more explanation about the our work. We develop
optimization models to prioritize the railway projects for investment. The
model includes all these factors. As the importance of these factors may not
be same in project prioritization, we plan to put the weights for these
factors. The purpose of the survey is to rate the importance of these
factors in the project prioritization. The Department of Transport, Ireland
identified several intercity railway projects for investment to improve
passenger and freight sectors and estimated the respected costs and benefits
(details are in Strategic Rail Review, 2003 by Department of Transport). All
the quantifiable factors except additional passengers to rail are in
monetary term. The qualitative goals are analyzed usin MCA techniques. We
use these data to our model.
Best regards,
Gabrial Anandarajah
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