Gulelat, Gatew (PhD)Belay, Woldeamanuel2019-01-022023-11-042019-01-022023-11-042014-09http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/15455The 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.en-USRailway StationSite SelectionMulti Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)Thesis