The European citizens wish a greater competition in the national and regional rail shipment



More competition in the national and regional rail shipment. It is how much second asks the majority for the European citizens how much turns out from a survey lead from Eurobarometer, the service of the EU commission in order to know the guidelines of the public opinion. 71% of the citizens of the EU, in fact, have been declared favorable at the opening to the competition of their national and regional railway systems.

Less of the half of the Europeans it has been declared satisfied of respective national railway systems (46%), even if - it has specified Eurobarometer - an increase of the satisfaction regarding 1997 (41% is recorded). The degree of varied satisfaction from 67% of Finland to 18% of Bulgaria. The satisfaction degree is generally low in the Member States of central and Southeastern Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Greece).

For the majority of European the opening to the competition it will affect positively the prices of tickets (72%), the quality of the services to passengers on board (71%), the comfort and the cleansing of cars (70%), the frequency of convoys (68%), the punctuality of trains (66%), the modalities of management of railway companies (63%) and the number of stations or served distances (62%).

Moreover the absolute majority of the Europeans considers that a greater competition in the railway market will benefit the interested parts, as passengers (78%), the private operators of field (68%) and the staff of the operators of rail shipment (55%).

At last 70% of the citizens of the EU wish that the competition is translate in railway services "without frills", analogous to how much it has happened for the airlines to low cost, while 43% are in favor of the development of additional services, which catering, film, prints, etc Almost two third party of European (65%) moreover wish to have of various modalities for the purchase of tickets, online, through smartphone or on board.

While, in the within of the specialized fair InnoTrans that has been carried out last week to Berlin, the partner of the project "5L" has introduced the first concrete steps for the construction of the railway wagon goods of the future. The acronym 5L drift from five fundamental requirement for the wagons expressed in German language: Leise (silent), Leicht (light), Laufstark (hard), Logistikfähig (apt under the logistic profile) and Life-Cycle-Cost-orientiert (favorable under the Life-Cycle-Cost profile).

"The wagon goods of the future - Jürgen Hüllen has explained, member of the board of directors of German VTG Aktiengesellschaft - is silent, light and efficient. It will be possible, for example, to couple it automatically, while the signallings of state or eventual breakdowns will be transmitted in real time to the machinist or headquarters of coordination. In order to get ahead with efficiency developments many complexes, the team 5L supports a transformation of the innovative process. Sharing the know-how-how of the several involved parts, it will be possible to set up of the innovations and to increase in minor time the productivity and the efficiency. At the same time, all the actors could have use of the economic advantages of the new developments. Often the technical solutions, as for example the systems of coupling automatic rifles in order to return the operations of maneuver and composition of the more efficient wagons - it has found Hüllen - would be, but are not elaborated until to allow some launch. In order to overwhelm this gap, two projects are on pilot that aim to test the new approach in the practical use. The specialists of 5L are elaborating the standards minimums in order to mount the survey systems automatic rifle on the wagons goods and at the same time they are developing a profile of technical-business requirement in order to construct to a modern revolving frame standard. The first results of these projects are attended at the end of 2012".

"In the technical and economic innovations for the wagons - it has added Jürgen Mues, responsible Asset Management of Helvetian SBB CFF FFS Cargo - we see real potentialities of increase". The wagon goods - it has explained - represents in fact a ring of essential conjunction between the logistics of the transports and the industrial logistics. So that the investments are profitable, sustainable and opportune, it is necessary that all the actors collaborate between they. "Since our activity is not only regional, but also international - it has continued Mues - we can only reach our objectives with, in collaboration with all the parts involved in a transboundary perspective".

Besides VTG and SBB CFF FFS Cargo the BASF companies, DB Schenker Rail, DB Waggonbau Niesky GmbH, Knorr-Bremse Systeme für Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH, Rail Austria Cargo, ThyssenKrupp, and Waggonbau Graaff GmbH participate to the project 5L. The scientific support is supplied by the chair of Traffic goods, regional and city traffic of the technical University of Dresda let alone from the specialistic unit railway Vehicles of the technical university of Berlin.