UIP and its members recognise that noise is a critical environmental burden that affects not only society, but also the performance of the railway system around Europe. The EU has already taken a number of measures towards noise reduction.
Noise continues to be high on the European agenda where noise creation aspects are legislated and on the national one where noise reception is dealt with according to the subsidiary principles. Accordingly, all European countries have noise reception limit values for new railway lines and in almost all Member States limit values exist also for […]
Joint UIP/VPI “Keepers’ Summit“ in Berlin: The climate needs more rail freight transport – the wagon keepers are delivering How to shift more freight traffic to rail – and that Europe-wide? At the Political Symposium of this year’s Keepers’ Summit experts from the sector and politics discussed how to increase rail freight performance and achieve […]
UIP ADDRESSES THE OPPORTUNITES OF A DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN RAIL FREIGHT In the framework of its 68th General Assembly UIP held a symposium on TURNING DIGITALISATION INTO PERFORMANCE on 24th of May at Palais Ferstel in Vienna. The Symposium brought together more than 100 high level representatives of wagon keepers, railway undertakings, shippers, policy makers […]
