A Study on Contestable Regions in Europe through the Use of a New Rail Cost Function: An Application to the Hinterland of the New Container Terminal of Leghorn Port

Table 2

Summary of the procedure adopted in this paper for the calculation of link travel times.

Variable	Formula	Details of the calculation
Average speed:		The link travel times are calculated from the average speed on each link. The average speed is calculated from the speed in rank A through a factor of 0.6 as proposed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI).
Speed in rank A:		The speed in rank A is publicly available only in Italy and in a few other countries. In the other countries only the speed for fast passenger trains, which could be assimilated to the Italian rank C, is publicly available; for these countries, the speed in rank A is calculated from the speed in rank C through a formula which has been calibrated on Italian data.