DAP cost categories and cost indicators
| Cost category level 1 | Cost category level 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Description | Cost | Description | It can be estimated … |
| Accident | Impact to the DAP involved in an accident | Personal property damage | Economic impact of repairing properties of the affected public due to accidents at the railway (€/track-km) | Either directly from the cost of replacing the damaged property or as part of the fatality or injury costsa |
| Injury | Societal impact due to injury of the affected public due to accidents at the railway (€/track-km) | Directly from the human cost due to injury through the estimation of VSLa | ||
| Fatality | Societal impact due to the fatality of the affected public due to accidents at the railway (€/track-km) | Directly from the human cost due to fatality through the estimation of VSLa | ||
| Comfort | Impact of unsatisfactory transport service on the DAP | Personal property damage | Economic impact of repairing the public’s properties affected by the operation of the railway (€/track-km) | Directly from the cost related to the damage of equipment or structures due to ground-borne vibration |
| Physical | Societal impact of the affected public of being physically affected by the traffic operation of the railway (€/track-km) | Through the willingness of the affected public to pay to avoid the physical effects – for example, noise and vibration – of the railway trafficb | ||
| Psychological | Societal impact of the affected public of being psychologically affected by experiencing an unpleasant event – that is, shock or traumatic stress, due to the traffic operation of the railway (€/track-km) | Through the willingness of the people affected to pay to avoid the physical effectsb | ||
| Environmental preservation | Impact of changing the environment with the railway infrastructure on the DAP | Aesthetics | Societal impact of changing the view of the natural and built environment by changing the layout of the railway infrastructure (€/track-km) | Through the willingness of the people affected to pay to avoid the changes in the view due to changes in the layout of the railway infrastructure |
| Landscape fragmentation | Societal and environmental impact of the railway line barrier for people and fauna (€/track-km) | Through the willingness of the people affected to pay to avoid the segmentation due to the railway infrastructure and through the impact of the segmentation to the local fauna populations | ||
| Cost category level 1 | Cost category level 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Description | Cost | Description | It can be estimated … |
| Accident | Impact to the DAP involved in an accident | Personal property damage | Economic impact of repairing properties of the affected public due to accidents at the railway (€/track-km) | Either directly from the cost of replacing the damaged property or as part of the fatality or injury costs |
| Injury | Societal impact due to injury of the affected public due to accidents at the railway (€/track-km) | Directly from the human cost due to injury through the estimation of VSLa | ||
| Fatality | Societal impact due to the fatality of the affected public due to accidents at the railway (€/track-km) | Directly from the human cost due to fatality through the estimation of VSL | ||
| Comfort | Impact of unsatisfactory transport service on the DAP | Personal property damage | Economic impact of repairing the public’s properties affected by the operation of the railway (€/track-km) | Directly from the cost related to the damage of equipment or structures due to ground-borne vibration |
| Physical | Societal impact of the affected public of being physically affected by the traffic operation of the railway (€/track-km) | Through the willingness of the affected public to pay to avoid the physical effects – for example, noise and vibration – of the railway trafficb | ||
| Psychological | Societal impact of the affected public of being psychologically affected by experiencing an unpleasant event – that is, shock or traumatic stress, due to the traffic operation of the railway (€/track-km) | Through the willingness of the people affected to pay to avoid the physical effects | ||
| Environmental preservation | Impact of changing the environment with the railway infrastructure on the DAP | Aesthetics | Societal impact of changing the view of the natural and built environment by changing the layout of the railway infrastructure (€/track-km) | Through the willingness of the people affected to pay to avoid the changes in the view due to changes in the layout of the railway infrastructure |
| Landscape fragmentation | Societal and environmental impact of the railway line barrier for people and fauna (€/track-km) | Through the willingness of the people affected to pay to avoid the segmentation due to the railway infrastructure and through the impact of the segmentation to the local fauna populations | ||
For Europe, example values are given in the publication by Kasnatscheew et al. (2016)
For Europe, example values are given in the report by Korzhenevych et al. (2014)
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