Infrastructure Costs
The fees the Transportation CJSC pays to the Infrastructure CJSC cover both operating costs and cost of asset ownership for infrastructure. The activity measures upon which the fees are based and the level of the fees will determine the cost attributable to passenger and freight business units.
The Infrastructure fee consists of:
-
a fixed fee,
-
a fee based on active main line track-km, and
-
a fee based on gross tonne-km.
The fee based on gross tonne-km is readily separated between passenger and freight service based on the gross tonne-km generated by each. The other fees represent the cost of having access to an entire rail network. These fees are not readily attributed to services based on cost causality. They are allocated between passenger and freight on the basis of train-km, as this is the best available measure of demand for the rail network.
The measures upon which the fees are based and how they allocate expenses between passenger and freight are shown in the table below for the 2000 Base Case.
Infrastructure Fees Separated between
Passenger & Freight Lines of Business
(Based on 2000, Base Case)
Fee Basis
|
Activity
Measure -
Passenger
|
Activity
Measure -
Freight
|
Fee for
Passenger
(AMD
millions)
|
Fee
Freight
(AMD
millions)
|
Operating Activity Measures
|
|
|
|
|
Active main line track-km
|
749
|
749
|
|
|
Allocated by train-km
|
51%
|
49%
|
338
|
320
|
Gross tonne-km (millions)
|
218
|
595
|
150
|
409
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of Assets
|
|
|
|
|
Fixed
|
|
|
|
|
Allocated by train-km
|
51%
|
49%
|
211
|
199
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
699
|
928
|
Transportation Costs
The operating costs of the Transportation CJSC are directly attributed to passenger and freight, where possible and are otherwise related to key cost drivers: employment and operation of physical station assets. Measures of these drivers need to be separated between passenger and freight to allow costs to be allocated.
Costs Related to Employment
Employee costs, which represent 37% of Transportation direct operating expenses, should be allocated on the basis of the number of employees working in each function. The employment records of the Transportation CJSC do not identify which employees serve passengers and which serve freight. To make this separation, we reviewed the list of employees at each station and assigned them to passenger or freight, based on their function. One group of station employees—train control employees—serve both passenger and freight. These employees are allocated between passenger and freight based on train-km. The table below shows the separation on employees between passenger and freight.
Transportation CJSC Employment (1999)
Employees
|
Passenger
|
Freight
|
Train control
|
259
|
241
|
Commercial
|
-0-
|
539
|
Passenger – on board trains
|
109
|
-0-
|
Passenger – in stations
|
200
|
-0-
|
|
|
|
Total
|
568
|
780
|
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