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Lokomotion and RTC celebrate 20 years of successful collaboration, with the conviction that even more can be done
Called for an improvement in railway infrastructure and a level playing field in relation to road transport
October 14, 2021
The CEO of Rail Traction Company, Martin Ausserdorfer, addressed to politics some exhortations to rail transport can be even more competitive: "we need - he explained - that the infrastructure comes improved and that finally the competitive conditions respect to the road network are fair'. Ausserdorfer pointed out that this must include not only major new projects infrastructural, but also a careful and preventive maintenance on the existing line and, above all, better coordination between all parties involved on the Brenner axis. In this regard, the CEO of RCT complained that, for example, since the beginning of this year the Brenner was unusable for the transport of goods by rail for a quarter of the total time.
"At the same time - continued Ausserdorfer - we are in compete with road traffic, which obtains numerous facilities, such as those relating to motor vehicles heavy gas. In this regard, to the change of thought of the politics must finally follow the facts."
Currently the cooperation between Lokomotion and Rail Traction Company takes the form of 10-15 trains per day per direction on the Verona-Munich route and vice versa, while since 2005 it has been served also the route through Tarvisio. With more than 145 thousand trains, in the last 20 years the two companies have transferred almost 3.6 million journeys with heavy goods vehicles on the Brenner, thus passing from the transalpine roads to the railway, more respectful of the environment and climate.
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The CEO of Rail Traction Company, Martin Ausserdorfer, addressed to politics some exhortations to rail transport can be even more competitive: "we need - he explained - that the infrastructure comes improved and that finally the competitive conditions respect to the road network are fair'. Ausserdorfer pointed out that this must include not only major new projects infrastructural, but also a careful and preventive maintenance on the existing line and, above all, better coordination between all parties involved on the Brenner axis. In this regard, the CEO of RCT complained that, for example, since the beginning of this year the Brenner was unusable for the transport of goods by rail for a quarter of the total time.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
