Nomenclature: Freight Market
Launch of the Industry Alliance for Multimodal Connectivity and Logistics
European Railway Review – NDTAC Impact on return of investment for retrofitting of railway wagons
GRB Position Paper on ERA Linguistic Arrangements
A clear linguistic regime is essential for the Agency in the design of its processes for its new tasks, more particularly in the way all the actors involved in the processes will coordinate to ensure that these processes are efficient, consistent and safe to the benefit of all these actors. In the absence of a […]
UIP 66th General Assembly: discussing a bright future for rail freight with Italian representatives from the freight sector, Minister Graziano Delrio and MEP David Sassoli
On June 16, UIP and its Italian member association Assoferr brought together high level representatives of freight Wagon Keepers, industry and governments to discuss possible ways for achieving higher economic performance in rail freight. The performance of rail freight transport is reaching 18.2% of the modal share according to the EU Statistical Pocketbook 2015 but […]
UIP 66th Annual Report 2015
4th Railway Package
Rail statistics
Economic Evaluation and Rail statistics need reliable data Rail traffic volumes: In 2016, EU freight traffic volumes reached 419 billion tonne kilometres out of 2.5 trillion of land transport overall. European transport policies require impact assessments or regular monitoring of implementation and performance. For this there is a strong need for data on rail transport, […]
Rail freight related policies
A new approach that combines all rail freight related policies Efficient rail freight transport services are crucial to achieve the EU agenda on energy, environment, growth and jobs. However, the main barriers to promoting competitive rail freight services remain the fragmented approach via different legislative acts and the missing link towards the needs of the […]