Czech railway infrastructure manager SŽDC and OLTIS Group signed the acceptance protocol for the information system KAPO. The objective of this system is the calculation of track access charges for the railway infrastructure owned by SŽDC. Putting this system into operation in order to ensure the correct functioning of the liberalized railway transport market was crucial for SŽDC. Track access charges from carriers total approximately CZK 4.5 billion (EUR 167 million) per year and any error in the charges would lead either to revenue losses from rail operation or to complaints and claims from carriers.
So far, the charging and the calculation of the track access charges have been provided by an obsolete system of TP412, by manual data collection from the train reports. The new KAPO solution eliminates the aforementioned reports and enhances data quality. Another element is lowering all the manual work and providing credible precise statistics of natural indicators (train km, gross ton km) on the railway network.
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