Topic: Rail Market Monitoring (RMMS)

What has changed in European rail: the highlights of the latest EU report

AnalysisWhat is the state of rail in the EU, and what has changed in the past years? To this end, the European Commission publishes a yearly Rail Market Monitoring Report (RMMS), the 8th version of...Read more

05-10-2023|Comment|author: Esther Geerts

EU Commission: deployment ERTMS is behind on schedule

The deployment of ERTMS is lagging behind schedule. In April 2020, the installation of the system reached just 78 percent of the target for 2019. Under the ERTMS European deployment plan, the EU signalling system...Read more

27-01-2021|Comment|author: Esther Geerts

No sign of modal shift to rail in new European market monitoring

Between 2015 and 2018, the market share of rail compared to other land-based passenger transport in the EU has been stuck at around 7.8 percent. Although there has been a slight annual growth of 2.5...Read more

20-01-2021|Comment|author: Esther Geerts

Congested railway track in EU doubled over 3-year period

The total length of railway track that was congested in the EU has almost doubled from 2015 to 2018. In total, congestion affected 2,261 kilometres of track in the 27 countries of the EU (3,32...Read more

19-01-2021|Comment|author: Esther Geerts