An alliance of European associations is appealing to the members of the next European Parliament in a joint paper in order to sustainably strengthen rail […]
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Proposed hikes to Track Access Charges (TACs) throughout many European countries have the potential to totally undermine Europe’s modal shift objectives. Planned increases in TACs […]
At its latest Plenary session of 31 January – 1 February 2024, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) adopted an opinion on the “Greening […]
After more than four years of intense work by 24 experts from all over the EU (more than 45,000 hours of work), the “FERRMED Study […]
The European Commission has proposed amendments to the Weights and Dimensions legislation, including provisions that would allow cross-border operations with European Modular System (EMS) vehicles […]
The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) is pleased to announce that the 2024 edition of the ERTMS Conference will take place from 23 to […]
The RailFreight Summit 2024 will take place at the Sofitel Warsaw Victoria Hotel in Warsaw on 15-17 April 2024. The summit will look at the […]
At the FERRMED conference held in Brussels on November 29, 2023, the focus was on a comprehensive analysis of the EU freight transport system and […]
The railway sector is full of bright ideas, ingenious innovation, and bold policy initiatives devised to enhance, grow and strengthen the rail mode today and […]
Trans-Alpine rail freight traffic is facing serious difficulties. Two of the tunnels which rail freight is reliant on, namely the Frejus and Gotthard Base Tunnel, […]
The final conference of 5GRAIL, an EU-funded Horizon 2020 research project, will take place on 7 December 2023 in Brussels. Don’t miss out on this important event […]
The proposed new Rail Infrastructure Capacity Management Regulation has been introduced as part of the Greening Freight Transport Package because freight needs more and better-quality […]
ESC is joining IRU in its call for the European Commission to find a solution to traffic bottlenecks along the Brenner Pass through Austria. On […]
This newsletter covers the weeks from 16-30/09/2023 and contains a selection of relevant news, information, publications, webinars, and events. It is the intention to circulate the newsletters in a bi-weekly interval.
Greenpeace published a press release that since 1995, European countries invested on average 66% more in expanding and refurbishing roads than in railways, new research […]