{"id":133923,"date":"2024-09-25T07:35:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T04:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/how-do-you-make-europes-rail-network-faster\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T07:35:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T04:35:07","slug":"how-do-you-make-europes-rail-network-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/how-do-you-make-europes-rail-network-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you make Europe\u2019s rail network faster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133923\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>On Monday, rail sector specialists spent a six-hour train ride attempting to figure out how to fix a network that&#8217;s fragmented, expensive and arguably holding back European growth. The EU&#8217;s plan to boost cross-border rail will take some serious investment, as it won&#8217;t be easy to speed up a network that&#8217;s currently sluggish and poorly-connected. The European rail sector got together on Monday (23 September) to discuss that issue \u2014 and where better to do so than on a six-hour rail trip?<\/p>\n<p>During the trip from Brussels to Berlin, coffee and conversations flowed among over 230 participants on how to get the continent on a par with its peers. Green MEP Tilly Metz believes creating a high-speed network is possible \u2014 but requires better coordination. &#8220;It&#8217;s really a question of political will because the money could be there. We just need a coherent approach,&#8221; she said; in her home country of Luxembourg, public transport is free. The EU&#8217;s Green Deal to curb climate change offers to double the volume of European high-speed rail by 2030, and triple it by 2030. But it&#8217;s clear there&#8217;s a mountain to climb.<\/p>\n<p>China currently boasts over 37,900 kilometres of rail lines linking major cities: to create the equivalent in Europe would mean constructing and upgrading over 21,000 kilometres of track, according to German operator Deutsche Bahn. Yet some worry the continent&#8217;s current hodgepodge of national rail networks is holding the economy back. The lack of high-speed rail between European capitals &#8220;is a profound contradiction, emblematic of the problems of the single market&#8221;, former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said in a report earlier this year outlining plans to boost EU prosperity. Fixing the problem &#8220;must become one of the pillars of the fair, green, and digital transition&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not the first to point that out. A 2018 report from the European Court of Auditors described the network as \u201can ineffective patchwork of national lines not well-linked,\u2019\u2019 as the European Commission can&#8217;t force member states to build routes. There&#8217;s a potential economic benefit: a high-speed network could create 1.5 million jobs, trigger \u20ac750bn in economic gains and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 5bn tonnes, according to the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies.<\/p>\n<p>So why is it not happening? Georges Gilkinet, Belgium&#8217;s mobility minister, said the EU needs to implement a \u201cmore efficient network,\u201d and called on the Commission to offer more train subsidies. &#8220;This would provide a fairer level of competition between planes and trains by lowering the cost of train tickets&#8221;, he told Euronews. \u201cWe have to support the greenest one, which is the train.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s current transport infrastructure still encourages people to fly rather than take the more environmentally friendly train, recent research from lobby group Greenpeace has found, with 69% of intercity routes served by direct flights, and just 12% by train. In France and Belgium, train travel is on average 2.6 times more expensive than flying, and in Spain it is four times higher, according to Greenpeace.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Worth, a rail expert and blogger, said the major challenge is a lack of infrastructure and ticketing. He encourages the incoming EU Commissioner for transport and tourism \u2014 set to be Greece&#8217;s Apostolos Tzitzikostas \u2014 to try to travel across the EU via train to appreciate the scale of the problem. &#8220;Plenty of places have more capacity, but, for different political reasons, crossing borders by train is hard because it is not the political priority,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That is why I want more political action from the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sorce: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/09\/24\/how-do-you-make-europes-rail-network-faster\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/how-do-you-make-europes-rail-network-faster\/\">How do you make Europe\u2019s rail network faster?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,16219],"class_list":["post-133923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-europes-rail-network"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}