GERMANY: Four policies to increase rail’s share of the freight market are set out in a position paper which rail advocacy group Allianz pro Schiene has produced ahead of the federal election on September 26.
These are:
‘Rail freight traffic has grown by 70% over the past few years, faster than the market as a whole’, said Armin Riedl, Allianz pro Schiene’s spokesperson for combined transport.
‘With a market share of less than 20%, rail freight has by no means exhausted its potential. Neighbouring countries like Switzerland or Austria show that with an ambitious policy, significantly more traffic can be shifted to the railways.’