Interview
Saving energy in rail: ‘The most sustainable energy is the energy you do not use’
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“Rail is already in the spotlight because it uses less energy than other modes of transport, but there is also still much to be won through energy savings”, says Bjørn Lysne, energy metering & settlement expert at European Partnership for Railway Energy Settlement Systems (Eress). At RailTech Europe on 22 June, he will talk about incentivising sustainable behaviour in a bid to save energy.
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When safely providing quality (On Time) deliveries, as the other on shore, the robust device, then transports now plaguing the high ways sustainably will be transfered to the railways – then railways can claim being, the as well timely, as environmentally friendly device!
(Currently, regrettably, just a minority can afford the luxury of not caring about JIT. For majority now the “last mile device” is the single available alternative, up to a distance of 1000 km from Port…)