How the Planned V0 Railway Line Would Increase the Resilience of the Railway Network of Hungary Against Attacks
Absztrakt :
The spatial distribution of the railway crossings on the river Danube in Hungary is
very uneven. There is only one electrified and double-tracked bridge in the country,
the Southern Railway Bridge in Budapest. The Újpest bridge in Budapest only
provides a connection through line 4 which is not electrified and the Baja bridge
is not electrified, too, and both of them are single-tracked. The long-planned
V0 railway line that is to be cross the Danube approximately halfway between
Budapest and Baja would not only help to redistribute the total network flow which
currently passes through almost exclusively the Southern bridge but would also
provide redundancy for the existing bridges in the case of their disruption. Four
of the five proposed V0 path alternatives are analysed based on these two network
properties.