The role of a railway infrastructure manager

Abstract

The role of a railway infrastrucuture manager is considered in the paper. The position of this subject in the Czech Republic is specified at the beginnig. The critical analysis of contemporary state supplemented of several examples is done in the following part. There is a reflection above main tasks of a railway infrastructure manager with emphasis on transport planning and making of prospective operational scenarios. The possibilities of simulation as a research method in context of task of railway infrastructure manager are mentioned at the end of the paper.