Railway Insider – a new presentation, a new experience, more strategic information about the railway market

04-20-2010 14:04

The railway market is constantly developing and so is the information volume concerning its evolution. Railway Insider monitors, collects, filters and edits the information the organisations need to adapt and react to market changes. To faithfully render the market dynamism, Railway Insider – the daily source of strategic railway information, comes in a new design and a new structure.

Romania

• Railway Insider – a new presentation, a new experience, more strategic information about the railway market
• AIF attends the debate on transport infrastructures organised by Realitatea FM

CEEC

• ZRS to transport iron ore for Arcelor Mittal
• RZD signs collaboration agreement with Tatravagonka

Russia and Asia

• Globaltrans wants to issue bonds
• Pakistan to carry WFP’s consignments on rails

International

• Stadler to supply units and trams for St.Gall and Geneva (Switzerland)
• Faiveley to install access doors and braking systems on SNCF's new generation double deckers

Press review

• Hotnews: Laurenţiu Plosceanu, ARACO President: Illegalities in public acquisition procedures start in the elaboration of task specifications
• ZF: Gruia Stoica signs EUR 50 million contract with Conpet

“The long way towards an interoperable railway system”

In the beginning of the '90s, the European railway industry with support from the EU institutions engaged in creating a common railway signalling system. Over time, ETMS emerged as one of the most successful European industrial projects and is now on its way to making railway transport one of the most competitive transport modes.

Although railway transport is, by far, the safest, fastest and lowest CO2-emission mode of transport, it is, however, confronted with one of the most striving problems, that of cross-border traffic which is complex and difficult to manage and most of the times affects the competitiveness of this means of transport. Cross-border traffic is doubled by the differences of gauge, electrification systems, administrative procedures, that make interoperability difficult and increase operation costs.