Next MFF and CEF 3: The EU Must Avoid Funding ‘White Elephants’ By Ensuring Optimal Use
ALLRAIL’s Secretary General Nick Brooks takes part in EU Parliament hearing on passenger rights
You Can Create a Single European Railway Area Over the Next 5 Years
After six months, Armand Duthil is coming to the end of his traineeship at ALLRAIL. During this period, he witnessed the elections in both parliaments of the European Union and of his home country, France.
Therefore, at the end of his time with us, we asked: “How do you see the Future of Passenger Rail?"
Ursula von der Leyen Correctly Identifies Ticketing Fragmentation as the Biggest Problem in EU Passenger Rail
In her Political Guidelines for the Next European Commission, the re-elected President of the EU Commission Dr Ursula von der Leyen correctly identifies the fragmentation of ticketing as the biggest problem in EU passenger rail. The next 5 years of the new EU Commission will be crucial to legislate and introduce solutions – it is Now or Never.
Open Access Long-Distance Rail Outperforms Clockface Timetables in Enhancing Societal Welfare
In the light of the EU Commission's proposal for a Regulation on the Use of Railway Infrastructure in the Single European Railway Area (SERA), a new academic report has been published by Professor Thomas Ehrmann of the University of Münster in Germany. This report critically examines the concept of clockface timetables, using data and empirical evidence from Sweden, Spain and Switzerland as well as assessing its implications for Germany under the proposed "Deutschlandtakt".