The structure of freight flows in Europe and its implications for EU railway freight policy

Kay Mitusch, Gernot Liedtke, Laurent Guihéry () and David Bälz
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Kay Mitusch: KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology = Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Gernot Liedtke: DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin]
Laurent Guihéry: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
David Bälz: KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology = Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

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Abstract: We analyse the potential for shifting freight transports to the railways in Western and Central Europe. This potential arises for large and concentrated freight flows over long distances of about 300 km or more. However, we show that there are only few such freight flows in Europe, and that they are concentrated or connected to the central European population centers, sometimes called the "Blue Banana". As a consequence, the European railway freight corridors according to EU Regulation 913/2010 should be divided into two distinct groups: first tier and second tier corridors. Substantial innovations should be introduced on the first tier corridors first, in order to increase efficiency and reduce noise. This refers to core innovations for rolling stock like the introduction of automatic couplings, electronic or electro-pneumatic brakes, and modern bogies.

Keywords: freight transport; railways; corridors; rolling stock; innovation policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Rolf Funck; Werner Rothengatte. Man, Environment, Space and Time - Economic Interactions in Four Dimensions, 34, Nomos, pp.283-318, 2014, 978-3-8487-1917-4

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