Facts & Figures
- Line Distance:
Rotterdam – Genoa: 1,400 km
Zeebrugge – Genoa: 1,500 km - Total line kilometres: 2,500 km
- Track kilometres: 4,900 km
- 9 new tunnels with 130 km length
- 5 countries: The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy
- 6 infrastructure managers: ProRail, Infrabel, DB Netz, SBB Infrastruktur, BLS Netz, RFI
- Largest transport volume in Europe - about to double from 2005 (28.3 bn tkm) to 2020 (58.9 bn tkm)
- 4 sea ports, 6 inland ports
- approx. 50 intermodal terminals
Major Projects:
- Betuwe route Rotterdam - Zevenaar
- 3rd track Emmerich-Oberhausen
- 3rd and 4th track Karlsruhe–Basel
- Katzenberg tunnel
- Gotthard base tunnel
- Lötschberg base tunnel
- Ceneri base tunnel
- Southeast belt Milan
- Electronic interlockings
- ETCS (Baseline 3)
- GSM-R
- One Stop Shop (OSS)
- Pathfinder
- Europtirails
- TSI TAF
- Implementation of new EU- Regulation 913/2010 concerning a European rail network for competitive freight
