Latvian Railways has developed a concept for infrastructure development until 2035, with electrification, increasing train speed and improving safety. The total estimated cost of all railway infrastructure development projects could amount to 4.5 billion euros...Read more
As a result of the Fourth Railway Package, which aims to create a single European railway area, the European Commission changed regulations in 2012 concerning the railway user charges. An Implementing Regulation (EU 2015/909) formulated...Read more
Latvian national railway company Latvijas Dzelzceļš (LDz) has cancelled its planned and ongoing projects to electrify the country’s railway network valued at 441 million euros. At the same time, LDz requires the financial bailout from...Read more
Track Access Charges is a quite complicated and important topic for the EU railways. Despite the differences between the charging systems being acted in the various Member States, they could be classified into two major...Read more
The European Commission has approved the allocation of 318.5 million Euros from the Cohesion Fund to improve the Latvian rail infrastructure. The country’s rail operator Latvijas Dzelzceļš (LDz) will use the money to perform the...Read more
Rail Baltica Joint Venture is looking for a contractor to design a 1435-millimetre gauge railway between Riga airport and adjacent capital of Latvia. The 56-kilometre line should be designed in two years after signing the...Read more
While EU policymakers push forward with their vision of a single European railway area, one area of intense debate in the freight sector is track access charges (TACs), and how infrastructure managers and rail operators...Read more
This week the first speakers of the Track Access Charges Summit 2018 are announced. Dr. Heike Link, Senior Research Manager at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Justina Hudenko, Chairman at SJSC Latvian Railway group...Read more