Supporting documents

Additional documents will be published over the coming weeks, namely:

Saver fares: Differentiation and potential deregulation

Passenger Focus reports that have informed this White Paper are available on the Passenger Focus website.

Maglev report (505 kb)

Technical issues raised by the proposal to introduce a 500 km/h magnetically-levitated transport system in the UK. Report prepared for the Department for Transport by Professor Roger Kemp FREng (Lancaster University) and Professor Roderick Smith FREng (Imperial College).

Published:: 24 July 2007

Study on further electrification of Britain's railway network

Link to the report (PDF, 2.17MB) on the Rail Saftey and Standards Board website. This report commissioned by the Rail Safety and Standards Board on behalf of the Department for Transport and the rail industry assesses the long term economic case for further electrification of the mainline 25kV.

Network Modelling Framework (935 kb)

Published:: 24 July 2007

NMF Baseline timetable (2009/10) and Specimen HLOS Options (55 kb)

Published:: 24 July 2007

Preliminary evaluation of double deck and extra long train operations (2 Mb)

This report is a high level assessment of the case for longer or double deck trains.

Published:: 22 August 2007

NMF – Appraisal Background Documentation (256 kb)

The NMF – Appraisal Background Documentation has been produced by Steer Davies Gleave and Delta Rail to detail the structure and working of the ‘Appraisal Module’ in NMF. This module calculates the Value for Money of rail schemes. Such calculations are based on NMF outputs (from other modules) and parameters/values and calculations consistent with WebTAG and STAG (Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance).

Published:: 19 November 2007

NMF – Financials and Physicals Background Documentation (804 kb)

The Financials and Physicals (F&P) Document details how NMF collates information from all calculation modules, presenting the user with all the key financial and operational diagnostics within the model. It also includes the baseline specification used in NMF as part of the HLOS process.

Published:: 19 November 2007

NMF – TOC Cost Module Background Documentation (858 kb)

The TOC Operating Cost Module background documentation sets out the processes and methodology underlying NMF modelling. This module includes the train operating costs as well as the ICM (Infrastructure Cost Model), but does not detail commercially confidential information of train operators.

Published:: 19 November 2007

NMF – Demand And Assignment Background Documentation (2 Mb)

The Demand and Assignment module background documentation details the NMF functionality for forecasting and assigning demand to train services, and includes details on the crowding methodology employed by NMF.

Published:: 05 December 2007

The NMF Environmental Module: Estimation of Rail Environmental Costs (2 Mb)

The environmental model was developed for DfT by AEA Energy & Environment, DeltaRail, and Paul Watkiss Associates to assess the environmental impacts and damage costs from passenger rail services in Great Britain. The environmental impacts, and associated social costs, are estimated for carbon dioxide (CO2), 3 other air pollutants (NOx, SO2 and PM10) and environmental noise.

Published:: 29 February 2008

Network modelling framework evidence pack (826 kb)

This evidence pack contains the economic and environmental appraisal of the HLOS. It details the assumptions made, the approach used in appraising costs and benefits, and the sensitivity tests conducted for the HLOS capacity metrics and the Value for Money appraisal of the HLOS. The document contains links to the relevant NMF background documentation, rather than duplicating the information in the description and analysis.

Published:: 25 March 2008

For related documents, pages and internet links, see the column on the right.