The Dutch rail sector has achieved good results in energy saving policy for several last years. Only the passenger trains have reduced the energy consumption from 0.37 megajoules per passenger kilometres in 2013 to 0.28 megajoules per passenger kilometres in 2016. The sector needs more innovative and challenging methods to improve its energy efficiency, considers Eugenia Bonifazi, leading expert at Ricardo Energy and Environment. At the RailTech Europe conference in Utrecht, she will give a presentation on this topic.