A recent travel analysis conducted by Forbes Advisor, the platform specialising in comparison and financial guidance, has unveiled a notable cost advantage in favour of air travel over rail transportation within the UK this holiday...Read more
Compagnie des Alpes, along with its tour operator Travelski, has initiated an invitation to tender, encouraging European rail operators to submit bids for providing passenger trains to Alpine resorts. Travelski, which provides packaged ski holidays...Read more
Every day, 45,000 Belgians commute to Luxembourg, and the two countries want to double this number by 2040. On October 3, 2023, Luxembourg’s Minister of Mobility François Bausch and his Belgian counterpart Georges Gilkinet signed...Read more
Trenitalia is continuing to expand its regional services in Italy. Since mid-September, the Italian operator has added two more services between Napoli Centrale station in Naples, the capital of the Italian region of Campina, and...Read more
For business travellers eager to demonstrate their environmental credentials, there’s a shift to trains over planes. Now, with additional competition on Europe’s prestige routes, leisure travellers are looking at greener travel decisions that may be...Read more
AnalysisSeveral of Norway’s railway lines are completely full, leading to traffic jams on the tracks and train delays, Bane NOR said in a statement last week. Norway’s mostly single track rails have almost no capacity...Read more
A major rail project in the southwest of France, also called ‘grand projet ferroviaire du Sud-Ouest’ (GPSO), will extend the high-speed track linking Paris to Bordeaux on two new lines: Bordeaux-Toulouse and Bordeaux-Dax. SNCF Réseau...Read more
Industry representative body Logistics UK has called on the UK government to review the Mode Shift Revenue Support (MSRS) scheme. The initiative, aimed at rail and inland water freight transport, is designed to help the...Read more
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 (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
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
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
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
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
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