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Model of connecting an airport by rail - case study: the city of Zagreb

Zagreb Airport is at some 15km distance from the City of Zagreb itself. It is connected with the City by road which is congested during the morning and afternoon peak hours of commuting transport thus significantly affecting the travel time to and from the airport. The airport development plan for the next twenty years includes the construction of another runway and a new passenger terminal of higher capacity for passenger handling and of adequate level of equipment. Regarding the planned increase in traffic at Zagreb Airport it is necessary to expand the infrastructure capacities that connect the centre of Zagreb and Zagreb Airport, since already the existing capacities are not sufficient. The current connection of the airport with the city is exclusively by road, more precisely, the main road that connects the city of Velika Gorica with Zagreb, and which is one of the busiest roads in the Republic of Croatia, and already as such cannot meet Zagreb Airport requirements. Since the railway line that connects the cities of Zagreb and Velika Gorica passes in the vicinity of the airport, the plan is to connect Zagreb Airport to the existing railway infrastructure and to construct an underground stop under the passenger terminal. This paper does not focus on the infrastructural solutions but rather on the operator model, i.e. rail carrier that would provide adequate transport of passengers on the Zagreb-Airport-Velika Gorica relation. The paper will analyze the current state regarding the number of passengers and the methods of arriving i.e. leaving the airport. Regarding the expected number of passengers in the future and the construction of an underground railway stop, a railway carrier model will be provided. The model will encompass the dimensions of the mobile capacities, i.e. transport means, the rail carrier trip frequency (headways), and the introduction of integrated transport document for the purpose of more comfortable travelling.

railway ; airport ; mobile capacity ; headway ; model

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