A new online ticketing product offering passengers aged 16 to 27 unlimited travel on long-distance services for €79 a month was announced by SNCF on January 23. TGVmax will be available on 94% of TGV and Intercités services and on every day of the year, with the exception of those trains that see the most business traffic.
TGVmax will enable young travellers ‘to go where they want, when they want, without …
The 3rd European Rail Freight Day, co-organised by the European Commission and RailNetEurope (RNE), took place 9 December in Vienna. The Rail Freight Day, which was attended by over 200 participants, provided a fruitful exchange between stakeholders and the Commission on operational issues and interoperability for rail freight, focusing on a customer-oriented development of the Rail Freight Corridors. Matthew Baldwin, the Deputy Director-General for DG MOVE, kicked-off the event by …
Transdev Sverige is to use IVU.rail software for service planning across all its Swedish rail operations from December.
IVU.rail can be used to develop efficient timetables and rolling stock diagrams, offering automatic suggestions and incorporating configurable planning rules which take into account service intervals, track and depot capacity and fleet availability. Controllers receive information about the current operating situation, enabling them to react swiftly to disruption.
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A UN high-level advisory group offers a ten-point plan to advance sustainable transport. Greater investment in greener, more sustainable transport systems is essential for propelling the economic and social development that is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, according to an expert panel report delivered to UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon on 28 October.
 Finding that global, national and local transport systems are hobbled by inefficiencies and
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