RFI plans new railway connection to Venice Airport
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) issued a call for tenders for a railway line to Venice’s Marco Polo airport on Friday. The project is geared towards encouraging people travelling to and from the airport to shift...Read more
Great British Railways must be ambitious, says association
Great British Railways (GBR), the new overarching management body in the UK, must be ambitious for the future of rail. That is the message from the Railway Industry Association (RIA), making an early response to...Read more
Are the benefits of shifting short flights to rail overestimated?
AnalysisAccording to a report commissioned by five airline associations, the CO2 benefits of shifting short haul flights to rail are limited. The report aims to highlight the fact that the picture is far more complex...Read more
How can the share of rail be increased? The EU commission wants to know
Cross-border freight and passenger services continue to face barriers limiting their competitiveness and attractiveness, the European Commission notes. A new consultation is launched by the EU to take into account the sector’s ideas and visions...Read more
33 European rail players sign pact: ‘massive investment in rail is needed’
Europe’s major railway players have called for massive investments in rail. 33 railway companies from 24 European countries signed a pact to that end during the European Railway Summit in Paris on Monday. With the...Read more
New EU rules on road tolls a fact, but road still has advantage over rail
After five years of negotiations, the new EU rules on road tolls are in place. The European Parliament adopted the Eurovignette Directive on Thursday 17 February. However, the new rules do still not provide a...Read more
Former SpaceX engineers to reinvent rail with platooning wagons
Parallel Systems, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers, has raised nearly 47 million euros in funding. With individually powered, autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles, freight can be transported in a flexible way.Read more
Rhine-Alpine Corridor to be the frontrunner in sustainable transport
The Interregional alliance for the Rhine-Alpine Corridor (EGTC) has published a roadmap to become carbon neutral. This with the aim to become the first European carbon-neutral transport corridor.Read more
‘Railways underexposed at climate summit’
Rail was too low on the agenda at the climate summit in Glasgow. “Let’s move people and not cars”, say the European Public Transport Association and international rail industry association UITP and UIC to the...Read more
Digital platform helps goods from road to rail
Shippers that wonder if their transport could also be done by rail have just got a new way to find out. In MATCH 2 RAIL, they can upload their journey, and the tool will align...Read more‘Rail connection to European ports should be on top of the list’
The interdependency of European ports and rail freight connections has been one of the topics on board of the Connecting Europe Express. In Europe, a large share of rail freight passes through its seaports, yet...Read more‘Flight tax more important for shift to rail than lower track access charges’
“We have to reduce track access charges, and especially Germany has a problem with this”, said Oldag Caspar of Germanwatch during a panel discussion at the arrival of the Connecting Europe Express in Berlin. But,...Read more
Sweden accelerates the North Bothnia railway
Sweden is taking the next step for the Norrbotnia line, a 270 kilometre new coastal high-speed railway between Umeå and Luleå. Infrastructure manager Trafikverket received the task to start planning the next section, Skellefteå –...Read more