调度是集中化,还是地区化?这是铁路高层决策人员一直在过去几年间经历工业合并浪潮中面临的问题。合并肯定有其益处,但作为大合并的结果,有些一级铁路会变得如此庞大几乎无法通过集中调度来管理。列车调度作为铁路的神经中枢,如同铁路运营的其它要素一样,要受到合并和集中化程度增减的影响。 Are dispatching centralized or regionalized? This is the issue that railway top policymakers have been experiencing in the wave of industrial consolidation over the past few years. Mergers certainly have their benefits, but as a result of the big merger, some tier one railroads can become so vast that they can hardly be managed centrally. Train scheduling, as the nerve center of a railway, like the other elements of railway operations, is subject to changes in the degree of consolidation and concentration.