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In matter of arranged transport road-railroad the EU must take example from the USA
It emphasizes the UIRR evidencing that last year in the United States the field has recorded an historical record with 13,5 million shipments
July 10, 2015
The level of I use of the arranged transport road-track in the USA would have to constitute an example for all, in particular for Europe. It emphasizes the International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR) evidencing that the Association of American Railroads (AAR) has found in a 2014 new historical record of the shipment number realized with this modality of transport, that they have been pairs to 13,5 million.
UIRR, to which the main European companies are under responsibility that operate in the field, find that draft of a number advanced almost 60% to that reached from the arranged transport European and, since the railway infrastructure of the United States about has the same length of that of the European Union while the American population is of a third inferior regarding that of the EU and the surface of the USA is two times larger and its Gross Domestic Product one is about the same one of the EU, the UIRR wonders because the EU is not able to realize the same performances in the field of the arranged transport road-track.
Moreover the UIRR observes that, if the economic crisis has determined in the United States a decrease of the intermodal rail shipment, this activity has then recorded a recovery and is returned to an increase dynamics pre-crisis.
The UIRR rimarca that to interrogate itself on this marked difference between I use it of the transport arranged in the EU and the USA is particularly important since the European Union is getting ready to the intermediate review of White Paper on the Transports of the EU commission, that it previews an important modal transfer from the road haulage on the long distance towards more sustainable modalities of transport, with the scope to contribute to the reduction of the carbon dioxide emissions of the transports of the EU.
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The level of I use of the arranged transport road-track in the USA would have to constitute an example for all, in particular for Europe. It emphasizes the International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR) evidencing that the Association of American Railroads (AAR) has found in a 2014 new historical record of the shipment number realized with this modality of transport, that they have been pairs to 13,5 million.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
