The first freight trains must run through the 55-kilometer-long Austrian prestige project, the Brenner Basis Tunnel (BBT), in ten years from now. The Alpine country can then greatly relieve the Brenner route for freight traffic through Tyrol. Despite the categorical driving bans and the so-called “Blockabfertigung”, this route is now congested with transit traffic between Germany and Italy at the border with Bavaria. However, experts warn that the tunnel alone cannot solve truck congestion in Tyrol on its own. The rail infrastructure must be overhauled and new transhipment terminals must be built to increase loading and unloading capacity, they say.