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Quality and safety management systems of timetable in railway traffic

Expanding the European Union to more and more countries have led to problems with the transport system. The main challenge thus has become the development of railway traffic, which is significantly lagging behind the road. Special attention was paid to the safety of traffic and the establishment of a safety management system in this development, but the quality of the timetable and the increase of work in passenger and freight rail transport significantly neglected. Thus, the expected positive impacts were left out despite the significant investments in the railway infrastructure. This was especially the case for countries with a smaller volume of rail traffic. Positive experiences of establishing safety management systems in railway companies with the recognition of their basic elements (policy, goals, operational programs, rules, risks, professional training, informing, irregular events and monitoring) could therefore also be applied to the establishment of systematic timetable management in railway companies. The basis for such improvement is the application of ISO standards, in particular ISO 9001. Challenges in these activities have arisen due to the lack of recognition of the requirements of ISO 9001 in the regulatory framework related to the railway system and because of the resistance of railway management in implementing changes. The biggest challenge for the development of the railway system from the traffic aspect was the division of the unique technological process of creating transport services into separate technological processes within the infrastructure manager and railway carriers. The timetable with its transport flows and material technical resources in this technological process was the first phase, the planning phase. Activities for making timetable have been lost in importance by dividing the unique railway system instead of strengthening. For this reason, the research on railway management has been carried out for the purpose of drawing up a model of timetable in order to find the direction of exit from identified problems

timetable, railway traffic safety, safety management system, quality management system

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