Apart from this, providing a greener option to move goods, this method actually has the capacity to match up the trade-off between the utilisation levels and capital costs, as the organisations running the rail services largely invest in spending on the infrastructure. Adapting to movement of urban freight by rail seems to present a greater opportunity to overcome the emission issues as well as the road congestion problem as the region under study possesses a high value and demand for freight movement. The forecasts that are showing an increase in the usage of motor vehicles for freight transport does not seem promising as the transport sector is already being accounted for 17% of the UK’s total domestic GHG emissions. However, on the other side, the UK has legally committed to reduce the carbon emissions by 80% by the year 2050 to that of the current number in 2016. The increase in HGVs number causes more congestion on the roads and also increases the emission of green-house gases into the atmosphere. The freight movement through heavy good vehicles (HGVs) is expected to grow by 22% each year until 2050 in the United Kingdom.
All the scenarios presented in the study assures a sustainable method to move the urban freight by rail that has the potential to reduce congestion and emissions in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom (UK). This proposed system has the potential to eliminate 5400 HGVs moving on the road per day that causes a reduction of CO 2 gas by approximately 5.4%.
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After simulating all the proposed scenarios in the SIMUL8 simulation software and analysing the results, scenario number 3 seemed to be the best replacement to the actual system as it presents a case to increase the number of train services running per day by in the line by 108 and causing a drastic improvement in the utilisation levels by an increase of 341.71% to that of the actual system. The proposed three scenarios could not only exploit the existing railway infrastructure by improving the utilisation levels of the currently operating railway line, but also proved to reduce an amount of green-house gases (GHGs) emissions that are caused by heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) moving on the road. The total number of services operated on the line is varied between different scenarios. These low utilisation levels of the line presented a case to propose three scenarios that has the potential to carry urban freight by rail through Lichfield Trent Valley to Birmingham New Street Station. The results from the simulation model suggest that the railway line is being under-utilised. A simulation model of the railway system was built and implemented using SIMUL8 computer software. This paper analyses the scope for moving urban freight through rail by evaluating the utilisation levels of the Cross-City railway line in The United Kingdom (UK), running between Lichfield Trent Valley and Birmingham New Street.
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