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General information

Subject type: Optional

Coordinator: Jesus Ezequiel Martínez Marín

Trimester: Second term

Credits: 5

Teaching staff: 

Carlos Escribano Muñoz

Teaching languages

  • Spanish

Skills

Specific skills

  • Show knowledge and skills for the coordination of the departments of purchasing, supply, production and distribution of a product to any company, analyzing different types of techniques

  • Show knowledge of the organization of maritime, land, air and multimodal transport, customs management and international trade in order to manage and / or contract transport

Description

The railway is studied with its possibilities and limitations for its integration in the logistics chain.

Learning outcomes

Be aware of the suitability of the railway for a given logistics chain

Working methodology

Presentation on the subject platform through pps presentations supported by web browsing that will be requested of the student during classes.
Complementary study material such as open access doctoral theses will be offered on the web.

Contents

Topic 1.

History of the Spanish railway, with references to other railways.

  1. first attempts
  2. The report Subercase - Santa Cruz
  3. The first General Law of Railways.
  4. The Barcelona Mataró railway.
  5. Expansion of railway lines.
  6. Political framework and concessions regime.
  7. First economic crisis of the railway.
  8. Definition of large railway companies.
  9. The State begins to rescue the railway: from Francesc Cambó to Miguel Primo de Rivera.
  10. state West Andalusia
  11. The Second Republic and the Civil War.
  12. The constitution of RENFE.
  13. The modernization plans.
  14. The European Union splits the railway operation of the infrastructures and circulation. Renfe Operadora and GIF are born.
  15. ADIF is born.
  16. Parallel with the history of the remaining European railways.

 

Topic 2.

Infrastructures and circulation.

  1. Track design and its limitations.
  2. road bed
  3. Ballast
  4. crossings
  5. lanes
  6. Road equipment
  7. Tunnels and viaducts.
  8. single track
  9. double track
  10. The third thread.
  11. Stations, terminals and other railway management facilities.
  12. Electrical supply.
  13. General Traffic Regulations.
  14. Signaling and communications.
  15. Corners and the run corner.
  16. Automatic driving assistance systems.
  17. Automatic driving.

 

Topic 3.

rolling stock

  1. Electric traction and diesel traction.
  2. locomotives
  3. Locotractors.
  4. Automobiles
  5. Passenger cars.
  6. Goods wagons.
  7. High speed
  8. Traction by heads and distributed traction.
  9. Articulated trains

 

Topic 4.

Commercial exploitation.

a) Travelers:

  1. Suburban, regional and long distance.
  2. High speed and High speed.
  3. The French model. The German model. The Spanish model. References of the models on the political and economic reality of the territory.

b) Goods:

  1. Customer trains
  2. Multi-client trains.
  3. Multi-product trains.
  4. Automotive trains.
  5. Iron and steel
  6. Intermodal trains.
  7. Railway companies and existing connections.
  8. Existing rail corridors.

 

Topic 5.

Future of the railway in Europe.

  1. EU policies.
  2. Brokers in the European Union.
  3. The fourth railway package. 
  4. Rail interoperability.
  5. The European Railway Agency.
  6. Railway safety.

 

Topic 6.

Management authorities:

  1. ADIF.
  2. The State Railway Safety Agency.
  3. Certifying entities.

Learning activities

In addition to the recommended bibliography, all information will be requested from the student through the course platform, through files and web information

Evaluation system

Continuous assessment and mandatory final exam: Attendance at theoretical classes:

  • minimum of 80% of sessions (1 point) or minimum of 90% of sessions (2 points) (20%)
  • Applied and active participation in the development and resolution of the case study (Up to 3 points) - 30%
  • Compulsory final exam. 50%

(To consider it passed and to be able to increase the overall grade with the continuous evaluation systems, it will be necessary to pass with a minimum grade of 5) In the event of failure in the final exam, a new make-up exam will have to be taken, which - to overcome it - will again require a minimum grade of 5, and without losing the points obtained by the continuous evaluation systems) 

REFERENCES

Basic

Rail Freight Transport. (Ignacio Sanz, Iñigo de Peñaranda, Joan Carles Enguix, Jordi Mas and Miguel Ángel Dombriz.)

ISBN: 978-84-15340-80-5, Publisher: Marge Books. Barcelona, ​​2013

Complementary

HISTORICAL-ECONOMIC STUDY OF SPANISH RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN THE XNUMXTH CENTURY

Author: ANIBAL CASARES ALONSO

Publisher: INSTITUTO IBEROAMERICANO DE DESARROLLO ECONOMICO. 

Year1973

ISBN84-500-6036-2

RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURES - Andrés López Pita

EDICIONES UPC

ISBN 9788483018538

EXPLOITATION OF RAILWAY LINES Andrés Lópe Pita

EDICIONES UPC

ISBN 10: 84988003543 - ISBN 13: 9788498803549

TRANSPORT ENGINEERING - Julio Fuentes Losa

EDITORIAL UNITED

ISBN 9788436263879

RAILWAY ENGINEERING - Fco. Javier González Fernández and Julio Fuentes Losa

UNITED EDITIONS

ISBN 9788436261844

MARITIME AND RAILWAY TRANSPORT - Andrés López Pita 

UPC editions

ISBN 9788483017319