According to the Railways Act, anyone wishing to operate and manage infrastructure must have a permit from the Swedish Transport Agency. The following information may be provided for an infrastructure manager:
• Managing and operating the infrastructure
• Allocating capacity
• Charging fees
• Providing services
• Establishing a network description
• Determining who has the right to operate or organise passenger services
• Traffic.
The Railways Act allows someone else to perform certain tasks. He will then also need authorisation for infrastructure management, but it is limited to the specific task only.
The subdivision type shall show who manages what on the Swedish railway network. There are about 500 infrastructure managers in Sweden. The Swedish Transport Administration is the infrastructure manager with almost the entire holding (89.4 %). Previously, the subdivision type was called track owner.
The data product has stretch distribution and connects to the network with reference to the nearest previous node and nearest previous kilometre board with distance in meters to both the starting and end positions of the route in the direction of the track link
The data product is comprehensive on the Swedish railway network.
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