How can transport benefit us all?

By |July 31st, 2020|

The HiReach project, in which EPF is a partner, is approaching its final stage.
Save the date!
On 22. September, HiReach and its sister project Inclusion will jointly organise a final – virtual – conference to present their main outcomes: Inclusive mobility for an inclusive society: new approaches and solutions. Join us for an interesting and interactive event, and learn […]

Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy Roadmap

By |July 29th, 2020|

The European Green Deal includes a target to reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2050. The Commission intends to adopt a comprehensive strategy to meet this target and ensure that the EU transport sector is fit for a clean, digital and modern economy. To this end, the EC has published a Roadmap to inform citizens and stakeholder […]

Evaluation 2011 Transport White Paper

By |May 28th, 2020|

The European Commission (DG MOVE) is currently conducting an evaluation of the 2011 White Paper ‘Roadmap to a single European transport area – towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system’. The aim of the evaluation is to collect and analyse evidence to help assess whether it has achieved its objectives in an effective and efficient manner. EPF as […]

Swedish study of international night trains released

By |May 5th, 2020|

Last week the Swedish Transport Administration released a report as a result of a government assignment in order to investigate possible opportunities to procure sleeper services from Sweden to the European continent. The report is only available in Swedish but below is a summary and some reflections.

Despite the long distance from the European continent to Scandinavia almost all international […]

Eurostar and refunds

By |April 16th, 2020|

Eurostar has cancelled many trains and is now operating a very limited timetable between London and Brussels/Paris. Many passengers therefore cannot travel or if they were to travel would face long delays.

On Eurostar’s web page on the corona virus, passengers are only offered an “eVoucher”, that can be used for a future Eurostar journey, or a possibility to rebook. […]

Enjoyable holidays with public transport

By |March 18th, 2020|

At the annual General Meeting in Düsseldorf on 14th March, EPF adopted a new position paper with recommendations on public transport promotion for touristic trips.

The paper was prepared by EPF member PRO BAHN and deals with:

the journey to a holiday destination
mobility at the holiday destination
day trips from the place of residence
luggage and passenger transfer.

The full […]

ERA PRM TSI Regulation Revision Working Party

By |March 4th, 2020|

During 2019 the work in the ERA PRM TSI working party has come to a final result. After several years of quite intense work a number of improvements are proposed.

The new regulation will be decided probably in June 2020. The results are, apart from rules concerning functional working of railway carriages and station service design, especially two major new […]

Netherlands Proposal for International Rail Passenger Transport

By |February 18th, 2020|

The Netherlands Government has submitted a position paper to the European Commission that sets out plans for the development of international passenger rail. It follows a high-level meeting, mainly with representatives of Member States and the Commission, that was organised towards the end of last year by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure & Water Management. EPF board members Arriën […]

Update: Competition policy implication of the Green Speed project

By |January 24th, 2020|

EPF is keen to ensure that the various competition authorities make safeguarding passengers’ interests a precondition for authorising the proposed merger between Eurostar and Thalys.  Members were updated at their General Meeting in January on constructive exchanges that have already taken place with DG COMP.  As we recorded last month, EPF recognises that the merger should allow the two […]

Green Speed project – competition policy implications

By |December 12th, 2019|

Eurostar/Thalys merger proposal: what will be the consequences for the passengers?
Following discussions in October between a delegation from EPF and the team in the European Commission’s powerful Competition department responsible for transport, EPF undertook to give thought to the implications for passengers of the proposed merger of Thalys and Eurostar which had just been announced.  

SNCF is currently the […]