Players across the European rail freight sector, including operators and the European Commission, agree that rail freight must increase its market share to 30% over the coming decade. While the consensus is that digitalisation has a major role to play in this modal shift, the question of who pays for this new technology remains, as David Burroughs explains.
No silver bullet to increase rail’s market share to 30%
Players across the European rail freight sector, including operators and the European Commission, agree that rail freight must increase its market share to 30% over the coming decade. While the consensus is that digitalisation has a major role to play in this modal shift, the question of who pays for this new technology remains, as David Burroughs explains.
Developing Digital Automatic Couplings would remove a manual process that is performed thousands of times a day across Europe, massively increasing efficiency. Photo: Shutterstock/Geza Kurka Photos
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