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General criteria
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Environmental criteria
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Economic criteria
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Vehicle - fix costs: high |
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Vehicle - running costs: (no data) |
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Driverless self-propelled driverless freight cars save costs for personnel, but increase energy costs. There is no data about the net effect.
The main economic benefit of self-propelled freight cars will be to gain a competitive edge in future logistic markets rather than reduce operation costs only. |
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Infrastructure - fix costs: medium |
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Self-propelled freight cars need less infrastructure for coupling, train formation and reloading etc. but require additional telematics infrastructure. |
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Infrastructure - running costs: reduced |
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Cost savings due to less infrastructure for freight handling and train formation will outweigh additional costs for running telematic infrastructure. |
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Scale effects: medium |
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If self-propelled freight cars were ordered in great quantities, there would be appreciable scale effects. |
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Amortisation: (no data) |
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Application outside railway sector (this technology is railway specific)
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