Evaluation and Selection of Railway Station for the Case of Addis Ababa/Sebeta – Dire Dawa Network Line
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2014-09
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Addis Ababa University
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The main objective of this paper is to evaluate and select railway station for the route Addis Abeba –
Dire Dawa network line. Railway station site selection has a great role on the development, safety and
accessibility of customer and resources. As many researches and experience of developed countries
railway progress shows special attention have to be given for station site selection. To select the railway
station at the right place, there are a number of criterias including internal and external factors to be
considered. The new Addis Ababa - Djibouti railway network that passes through Dire Dawa which is
now on construction needs railway station. The station needs to be selected using all the selection
criteria according to the international railway site selection criteria and according to the situations
compatibly. Even though the Ethiopian Railways Corporation has already proposed railway stations for
Sebeta- Dewenle network line, it is not selected and analysed well as per the required criteria, technique
/ method and procedure of railway station site selection. Knowing the purpose of the railway station and
understanding the proposed stations problem, this paper dealt with railway station site selection. The
main data required for this research was collected from different sources like Ethiopian Railways
Corporation head office and project managers, reviewing feasibility study on railway station, site
visiting and using different related books, web sites, journals and related researches done in experienced
countries. The data collected through data collection techniques are organized according to their
categorization & analysis of the data has executed by using the selection factor and constraint criteria
and multi criteria decision analyses. Then analysed by manual calculation and Microsoft excel. Finally
this research evaluated the currently selected stations, identified the gap and proposed accessible and
sustainable railway station of freight and passenger station for Addis Ababa - Dire Dawa line, and
developed model for all railway station site selection which fit to the case of Ethiopias Railway in the
future. Therefore it is applicable on Ethiopian railway system including the future railway network of all
rail corridors.
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Railway Station, Site Selection, Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)