RAILWAY ALONG WATERWAY OF THE THAI CANAL PROJECT

Abstract

This paper presents simulation results in technical viewpoint of a railway system which has only been designed along the currently big infrastructure project in Thailand, namely Thai Canal. Following the assumption that the mega man-made canal will be built in the near future, it can simply predict that many people will come around the canal with various purposes, working, visiting, travelling, living and so on. Particular infrastructure such a public railway system may be considered to support those people for mobility approach among cities located in the 9A route Thai canal. Simulations on two types of the proposed railway, city line and express line, have been elaborated. Computational results show that the city line with lower speed limit consumed more electricity per trip and also spent more trip time than of the express line due to its more passenger station intentionally provided for people mobility between both Thai canal container terminals of Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean sides.