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Causation and modelling of railway civil engineering costs

Author(s) -

Stephen J Barber,

Nathaniel Jones,

Harry W. Shenton,

D. M. Wolfendale

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

proceedings of the institution of civil engineers - transport

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337

H-Index - 23

eISSN - 1751-7710

pISSN - 0965-092X

DOI - 10.1680/itran.1992.21366

Subject(s) - causation , control (management) , operations research , business , engineering , economics , operations management , actuarial science , finance , risk analysis (engineering) , management , political science , law

The Introducers explained that Britain was preeminent in Europe in its understanding of cost causation. To ensure optimal use of its infrastructure they said it is important that British Rail (BR) accurately attributes costs between businesses where assets are used by more than one business. This requirement is particularly relevant to trainload freight (TLF) because this business uses 17 500 miles of BR's 20 300 miles but only directly owns and manages 2000. (Civil engineering costs are 28% of overall costs for TLF.) The relative lack of direct managerial control focuses attention on the ability to allocate with accuracy.

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