A quantitative analysis method of influencing factors of railway goods arrival time

Efficient and punctual delivery of railway goods within the delivery period is not only the basic requirement of the state and society for railway transportation enterprises, but also an important rule that railway transportation departments should abide by. Based on this background, this paper studies the main influencing factors of the whole arrival time of railway goods from the aspects of goods themselves, railway technical equipment and railway transportation organization, and quantitatively analyzes the influence degree by using the principal component analysis method. It is found that the most important influencing factors of the whole arrival time of railway goods are waiting for pick-up at the loading station, waiting for delivery at the final technical station and non-operation detention, which provides a solution for the management of railway goods arrival time.