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Latest issue / 2 April 2013 / James Abbott, Technical Editor, European Railway Review
Ticketing technology supplier Amadeus has released a new study with an optimistic outlook for long-distance rail travel in Europe. The study estimates that long-distance passenger traffic will increase by 2.2% annually over the next seven years to reach over 1.36 billion by 2020 – 238 million up on 2011 figures. The continent’s three biggest economies, Germany, France and the UK, are the chief sources of the expected increase; also, affluent Switzerland is thought to have high growth potential. (more…)
Tagged with: Amadeus, European Railway Review, Technical Editor, Ticketing Technology supplier
Latest issue / 2 April 2013 / Dr Peter Ramsauer, Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Development, Germany
Efficient transport infrastructure is the foundation for the growth and competitiveness of our economy. More and more countries in Europe have come to the realisation that the forecast increase in commodity flows cannot be managed anymore with the already available infrastructure. This also means that focusing on one single mode of transport is not enough: The benefits of all modes of transport – road, rail, waterborne and air – must be exploited to the fullest. (more…)
Tagged with: Building and Urban Development, Dr Peter Ramsauer, Efficient Infrastructure, Federal Minister of Transport, Germany
Latest issue / 2 April 2013 / Olaf Drescher, Head Project Manager for VDE 8, DB ProjektBau GmbH
The Nuremberg-Berlin Project (VDE 8) is Germany’s largest and most innovative infrastructure project with 56km of tunnel and 27km of viaduct. With the breakthrough in the 824m-long Höhnberg Tunnel in Upper Franconia on 3 August 2012, the last of the 56km of tunnels in this project was completed – a significant milestone in the major new rail link between Munich and Berlin. The core section of the link is a 500km-long new and upgraded line along the Nuremberg–Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle–Berlin route. Investment for the project amounts to €10 billion from the Federal Republic of Germany, the European Union and Deutsche Bahn AG. (more…)
Tagged with: DB ProjektBau GmbH, Head Project Manager for VDE 8, Nuremburg-Berlin Project, Olaf Drescher
Latest issue / 2 April 2013 / Eva Kreienkamp,CEO, Hamburg-Köln-Express GmbH
In July 2012, Hamburg-Köln-Express – the first private long-distance rail service in Germany – began operations. Since then, this young company has successfully found its market, with a growing number of passengers regularly using the new service. (more…)
Tagged with: CEO, Eva Kreienkamp, First private long distance rail service in Germany, Hamburg-Köln-Express GmbH
Latest issue / 2 April 2013 / Frank Jost, Policy Officer at the Single European Rail Area Unit, European Commission
The European Commission recently announced a comprehensive package of measures to deliver better quality and more choice in railway services in Europe. Rail is a vital part of EU transport, with a key role in addressing rising traffic demand, congestion, fuel security and decarbonisation. But many European rail markets are currently facing stagnation or decline. Faced with this reality, the Commission is proposing far reaching measures to encourage more innovation in EU railways by opening EU domestic passenger markets to competition, as well as substantial accompanying technical and structural reforms. (more…)
Tagged with: European Commission, Frank Jost, Policy Officer at the Single European Rail Area Unit
Latest issue / 2 April 2013 / Jacques Colliard, Head of Security Division at UIC and RESTRAIL Coordinator
REduction of Suicides and Trespasses on RAILway property (RESTRAIL1) is a threeyear project that began on 1 October 2011 and is co-funded by the European Commission’s FP7 Programme. The aim of RESTRAIL is to reduce the occurrence of suicides and trespasses on railway property and to reduce the service disruption and other consequences these events cause by providing the railway industry with an analysis and identification of cost-effective prevention and mitigation measures. (more…)
Tagged with: Alexandra Gurau, Anne Silla, European Commissions FP7 Programme, Head of Security Division at UIC and RESTRAIL Coordinator, Infrabel, Jacques Colliard, SNCF
Latest issue / 2 April 2013 / James Abbott, Technical Editor, European Railway Review
Turkey is a country on the move. It has a younger and faster growing population than anywhere in Europe. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD1) predicts Turkey will be the second fastest-growing country in the world by 2018, and by 2025 the Turkish economy is expected to outstrip those of Canada, Spain and Italy. The country is building a railway to service this fast-growing economy. Since a decision made a decade ago that Turkey’s railway should be modernised rather than gently left to rot as it had been beforehand, substantial progress has been made in building a system fit for the 21st century. (more…)
Tagged with: European Railway Review, James Abbott, OECD, Technical Editor, Turkish rail network
Latest issue / 2 April 2013 / Eurotech
Railtex 2013, the UK’s premier rail event, will take place at the Earls Court exhibition centre in London from 30 April to 2 May. Organised by Mack Brooks Exhibitions, this will be the 11th edition of these popular exhibitions that provide both a technology showcase for customers in the domestic rail market and an opportunity for the country’s suppliers to present their capabilities to a wider international audience. (more…)
Tagged with: Eurotech, Railtex
Latest issue / 2 April 2013 / Florian Auer, Rodolphe Potvin, Paul Godart, Laurent Schmitt, Clive Roberts, Paul Weston
This free to view Track Systems supplement is sponsored by KIROW, Harsco Rail, Amberg Rail, LINSINGER, SRS RAIL SYSTEM and Trimble:
- Under Sleeper Pads in Track – the UIC project
Florian Auer, Past Project Manager for ‘USPs in Track’ / Rodolphe Potvin, Head of Track Laboratories, SNCF / Paul Godart, Deputy Director of Infrastructure at Infrabel and Chairman of the UIC Track Expert Group / Laurent Schmitt, Infrastructure Senior Advisor, UIC
After gathering positive results from several railway companies, the UIC decided to launch a second project on the topic of Under Sleeper Pads (USPs). Between 2010 and 2012, members from 12 countries all over Europe and Japan worked on one of the biggest projects seen in recent years carried out by the UIC. Measurements in the laboratory and theoretical studies complemented the intensive on-site measurements on various test tracks in Europe. The project name – ‘Under Sleeper Pads in Track’ or ‘USPs in Track’ – aimed to develop a new track model to understand why tracks with USPs give a better performance…
- In-service track monitoring
Clive Roberts, Professor of Railway Systems at the University of Birmingham and Director for Railway Research, Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education / Paul Weston, Research Fellow, Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education
In the drive to reduce the cost of railway maintenance, research at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Railway Research and Education has been developing track monitoring systems that are able to detect and diagnose track geometry faults from in-service vehicles. This work is being undertaken in the UK as part of the EPSRC funded Track 21 project and in Germany in collaboration with Deutsche Bahn as part of the European FP7 AUTOMAIN project…
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Tagged with: Amberg Rail, Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, Clive Roberts, Florian Auer, Harsco Rail, International Union of Railways (UIC), KIROW, Laurent Schmitt, Linsinger Maschinenbau GmbH, Paul Godart, Paul Weston, Railway sleeper, Rodolphe Potvin, SNCF Engineering, SRS RAIL SYSTEM, Track systems, Trimble
Latest issue / 1 April 2013 / Siim Kallas, Judit Sandor, Roberto Palacin, Henning Schwarz, Christian Kamburow, Michael Meinert
This free to view Sustainability supplement is sponsored by DriveTrain:
- Fair competition for sustainable railways
Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Transport
The European transport policy aims to boost sustainable mobility, promoting growth of the economy, providing jobs and reducing negative impacts on the society and the environment. Rail has an important role to play in achieving these goals, but the sector has to overcome substantial changes in order to play its full part in the EU transport system…
- Towards greener and cleaner rail diesel vehicles
Judit Sandor, Sustainability and Environment Manager, UNIFE / Roberto Palacin, Senior Researcher and Head of the Rail Systems Group, NewRail / Henning Schwarz, Senior Consultant, Environment and Sustainability, Deutsche Bahn Environment Centre / Christian Kamburow, IZT (Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment) / Michael Meinert, Head of R&D Group Energy Storage Systems, Siemens AG, Infrastructure and Cities Sector
Rail is considered to be the most environmentally-friendly mode of transport. Rail exhaust emissions from rail diesel traction in Europe (EU27 & EFTA) are very low. Rail diesel traction accounts for less than 2.5% nitrogen-oxide and 4.5% particulate matters (EEA 20081) out of the total emissions from the European transport sector. Nevertheless, continuous improvement must be ensured by the sector. This is to be underlined as the European railways committed to reduce their total exhaust emissions of NOX and PM by 40% by 2030. To tackle the challenge of reducing rail diesel emissions, the railway industry launched CleanER-D – a research project partly funded by the European Union…
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Tagged with: Christian Kamburow, Deutsche Bahn, Diesel Train Sets, Environment, Henning Schwarz, IZT, Judit Sandor, Michael Meinert, NewRail, Roberto Palacin, Siemens, Siim Kallas, Sustainability, UNIFE
Latest issue / 1 April 2013 / Raimund Abele, Léa Paties, Harro Effertz
This free to view Bogies & Wheelsets supplement is sponsored by Bombardier, Schwab Verkehrstechnik, CAF, Lucchini and Continental ContiTech:
- EURAXLES – paving the way to enhanced railway safety
Raimund Abele, Chairman of the EURAXLES Steering Committee / Léa Paties, Project Manager at UNIFE and EURAXLES Project Coordinator
EURAXLES was launched in November 2010 and is a three-year R&D project coordinated by UNIFE. This EU-project, funded via the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development, is bringing together 23 European partners covering the rail sector with the final goal to minimise the risk of axle failure in rail transport to such a level that it is not considered as a significant threat to the safe operation of the European interoperable railway system…
- Bombardier drives innovation with creation of new Bogie Technical Center
Harro Effertz, Head of Contracts, Legal Affairs and Claim Management and BTC Project Lead, Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier’s Bogies business unit has a long tradition and history within the rail industry – born out of the competences of multiple companies that through the years have shaped the Bombardier Transportation Group. Today the Bogies business unit is composed of multiple international sites, with more than 2,000 skilled and motivated employees, and has more than 160 years of bogie expertise capturing a constantly growing turnover of approximately €500 million per year. Within our business unit we manufacture and sell more than 3,500 BOMBARDIER FLEXX bogies on an annual basis as the worldwide market leader. Today more than 200,000 FLEXX bogies are in successful operation worldwide…
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Tagged with: Bogies, Bombardier, CAF, Continental Contitech, EURAXLES, Harro Effertz, Léa Paties, Lucchini RS, Raimund Abele, Schwab Verkehrstechnik, UNIFE, Wheelset
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