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Network Statement 2014 - ProRail

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1. Capacity allocation systemsThe capacity allocation systems make use of a railway vehicle database. The railway vehicledatabase is also used for the calculation of running times.2. Analysis of the traction-power supply systemThe traction-power supply system must be attuned to railway vehicles powered by electricity. Tothis end, analyses are carried out whereby the specifications of these railway vehicles arerequired.3. Control of noise emissionsWhen new or overhauled passenger stock locomotives are permitted to the main railway networkin the Netherlands, the railway undertakings operating this stock will provide <strong>ProRail</strong> with noiseemission data on these railway vehicles within three months of taking them into use. This applies:• to railway vehicles for which no type approval and admissions certificate has been issued on 1January 2008, and• to railway vehicles to which after 1 January 2008 physical changes have been with significantconsequences in terms of noise emissions.In case of passenger stock and locomotives used on the opening track, the emission data must begathered and reported in accordance with Procedure A of the CROW publication TechnicalRegulation Emission Methods 2006 108 .As regards passenger stock and locomotives used on railway and/or shunting yards, the emissiondata must be gathered and reported in accordance with the Measurement Protocol Railway Yardsversion 10-11-2005 109 drawn up by TNO on the instructions of <strong>ProRail</strong>. In deviation from the datato be provided as described in Chapter 7 of the Measurement Protocol Railway Yards,measurements are not required for the aspects ‘Braking to standstill’ and ‘Curve noise in points’.In deviation from the data to be provided as described in Chapter 7 of the Measurement ProtocolRailway Yards, measurements are not required for the elements ‘Braking to standstill’ and ‘Curvenoise in points’.108 Reference to this publication is made by Appendix IV of the Rail Traffic Noise Calculation & MeasurementRegulations 2012.109 This measurement protocol prescribes that the measurements comply with those stipulated in the IndustrialNoise Measurement and Calculation Manual 1999, reference to which is made in the Rail Traffic NoiseCalculation & Measurement Regulations 2012.appendix 8 Reports<strong>Network</strong> <strong>Statement</strong> <strong>2014</strong> Combined <strong>Network</strong> - version 1.0 dated 9 January 2013 page 129

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