Zbornik radova Koridor 10 - Kirilo Savić

3rd International Scientific and Professional Conference
CORRIDOR 10 - a sustainable way of integrations
The analysis of private siding owners showed that some owners own several sidings at the same or at
different locations. For the study of private sidings there were a total of 117 owners recorded, while the
18 owners own more siding on the same or different locations.
Analysis of the traffic dynamics on private sidings in Slovenia showed that over 20 % of all owners of
private sidings carried out 90 % of freight wagons and transported tonnage in 2010. The largest
owners by number of wagons or carried tonnes in 2010 were Instalacija l.l.c. with 30 %, Petrol l.l.c.
with 19.0 % and Acroni l.l.c. by 5 %.
Private sidings of Luka Koper and Slovenian Railways were not considered in the analysis, since the
purpose of the study was to show the general situation of private sidings in Slovenia, which means
that the basic activity of presented owners is not related to the actual transport, but their sidings
represent an additional activity and easier transfer of goods to the end users. Transport on private
sidings of Luka Koper represent 80 % more traffic in the number of transported consignments as was
the traffic in 2010 on all private sidings in Slovenia.
2. THE SURVEY
Transport and Traffic Institute Ljubljana l.l.c. conducted a survey during the period between 9.9.2011
and 18.11.2011 with private sidings owners for the need of the study "Analysis of opportunities and
development needs for private sidings in Slovenia". The aim was to obtain information on current state
of private sidings, on mode and extent of private sidings use, information about the reasons for nonuse
or partial use of sidings and information on the advantages and disadvantages of rail transport
from the user's perspective. The questionnaire was sent to 117 owners of private sidings by email. 44
owners of private sidings responded (38 % of who received the survey questionnaire), of which 36
sidings owners returned the completed questionnaire (31 % of who received the survey
questionnaire), which is almost a third of all, which was sent a questionnaire.
Between the owners of private sidings, who completed a questionnaire and gave some information on
private sidings there are some owners who have owned several sidings on the same or different
locations, so the response to the survey was slightly larger in terms of private sidings.
The survey was quite broad and was largely based on the basis of previously proposed answers.
Questions offered a choice of responses, that the owners of sidings mostly completed. More
difficulties in completing the survey questionnaire was in part related to the volume of traffic, where it
was necessary by the sidings owners to enter the transportation volume for the past several years and
planned growth or decline in transport volumes. Questions about the transport segment were thus only
partially fulfilled, but their responses were meaningfully used in further analysis.
From a total of 117 questionnaires sent to the owners of private sidings a survey was completed by 36
owners or 31% of the total, which is a reasonably good basis for the preparation of the analysis.
Questionnaire was completed by important railway transport users as well as users who rarely use
railway transport or those who by a variety of reasons currently not use the railway transport.
Owners of sidings that submitted a survey questionnaire were classified into each group from largest
to smallest user or owner of the sidings (rank), keeping in mind the amount of traffic of those sidings
owners that didn’t submit the questionnaires (in the analyzes and calculations Luka Koper, Slovenian
Railways and its subsidiaries are not taken into account).
From a total of 36 sidings owners who completed a questionnaire, in the viewpoint of transport work
done in 2010, a questionnaire was answered by 15 major users, 14 medium users and 7 smaller users
or non-users of private sidings. In each group, we classified the following sidings owners who
completed questionnaires:
Group 1: Big users 17
In the group of Big users who responded to the questionnaire, we classified Acroni from Jesenice, with
the largest share (8.82 %) of shipments in 2010, followed by Instalacija with 7.81 % share of
shipments and by far the largest share of cargo transported (29, 89 %), and Petrol with 4.23 % share
17 Big usees carried more than 1 % of shipments in 2010 and transported more than 0,5 % of cargo, such as Acroni, Instalacija
in Petrol.
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