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The East Coast Main Line Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS), published by Network Rail in February 2008,〔(East Coast main Line RUS )〕〔(ATOC press release on ECMLRUS )〕〔(London Connections appraisal )〕 was the seventh RUS. RUSs are established by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) unless the latter objects within 60 days. A letter formally confirming establishment, but with some qualifications, was sent by ORR to NR in April 2008,〔(ORR letter to Network Rail confirming establishment )〕 and the RUS is included in NR's map as established.〔(Network Rail RUS Programme and Map )〕 The scope includes the whole of Strategic Route 8 - East Coast Main Line〔(Route 8 - East Coast Main Line )〕 and Route 9 - North East Routes,〔(Route 9 - North East Routes )〕 and part of Route 5 (the Hitchin-Cambridge line). Not strictly within the scope but relevant to the service mix forming present and future utilisation of the RUS area are parts of Route 11 (to Sheffield and to Lincoln, and the diversionary joint GN/GE route from Peterborough to Doncaster via Lincoln), Route 10 (to Hull and to Bradford) and Route 24 (to Aberdeen). As with other RUSs, the ECMLRUS took into account a number of responses,〔(London TravelWatch response to consultation )〕〔(Rail Freight Group response to consultation )〕 including the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).〔(ORR's response to consultation )〕 The routes and services covered by the RUS are varied in type. At the London end and in the vicinity of other major cities are inner suburban and metro-like services, which are vital commuter routes; across the RUS area there are cross-country and fast medium-distance passenger services, including inter-city services; there are long-distance (and in the British context very long distance) high-speed passenger services (LDHS) from London to a number of major cities in Scotland and northern England; and there are significant freight flows that use part of the area. A number of issues arise from the mix and intensity of these services, and the RUS addresses these in 10 groups. Some issues are closely related to other RUSs: Scotland RUS (Edinburgh Waverley station and Portobello junction); Freight RUS. Some issues were passed to later RUSs: Lancashire & Cumbria〔(Lancashire & Cumbria RUS )〕 Yorkshire & Humber (Y&H RUS),〔(Yorkshire & Humber RUS )〕 the Network RUS, West Coast Main Line (WCML).〔(West Coast Main Line RUS Scoping document, section 4.4.2 p.6 )〕 The RUS needs to be seen against existing contingent and prospective schemes, especially against the Thameslink project, which will see a step-change in services continuing through central London onto the network south of London. The timing of some interventions identified in the RUS are dependent on certain works in this programme being brought forward. ==Groups of gaps and issues, with recommendations== A number of routes and services suffer from overcrowding of passengers in each usually 3-hour peak periods (mostly divided into a middle 'high' peak hour and two 'shoulder' peaks). In almost all cases these problems are foreseen, in the absence of interventions, to get worse owing to forecast growth in passenger traffic. These are simply referred to as "peak crowding" in the detail below. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East Coast Main Line Route Utilisation Strategy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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