How can the Western Balkans TEN-T integration change European rail?
Map of countries of Western Balkans (2013). Source: Wikimedia Commons. Author: Marko7
The TEN-T network extension toward the Western Balkans and the region’s integration into the EU rail market is close to implementation, pending some more steps. The region could prove of utmost importance for an efficient European railway network and may be the key to improved connectivity between Europe and Asia.
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A very strong piece of analysis, useful for a lot of interested parties
However, is in fact European railway network now sufficiently efficient, thus even sustainable? (For meeting with goals, 50% capacity now urgently has to be added, at existing. Contemporarily, a no longer timely state of the art infrastructure is plaguing track owners and operators with stops – and costly derailments… Utilisation of assets now has to be improved, etc.)
A decisive upgrading to a safely sustainable, a timely 32,5 ton allowed axial load, will add to capacity – and to efficiency.
In addition to ISO containers, the system can generate huge fixed revenues from a regional-city, cargo-parcel-postal, “Trunk” & “City-Feeder” distribution service, taking advantage of excess capacity, voids between trains/trams, part of sunk cost & opportunity cost, using line-balancing strategies.
Required: (a) Refurbished, &/or new cargo wagons. (b) Standardized, “Feeder RO-RO” units with RFID/IoT/AI options for optimal throughput. Test see: Orion at Euston Station, UK.