April 2011

The adoption and publication of EC’s new White Paper on Transport was for the railway community an oxygen bubble. The […]

Dragoş Floroiu, Director, Organismul de Investigare Feroviar Român (OIFR) For more than 2 years, the economic recession has represented a […]

The recovery of the international freight transport, although on the right track, is still shadowed by uncertainties based on the […]

The financial downturn has caused signifiant drops in all activity segments, seriously affecting the global economy. Figures in transportation, one […]

This paper presents a structural and topological analysis of braking mechanisms in railway vehicles. The braking force is transmitted from […]

The complex strategy adopted towards the end of March by the European Commission is focused on developing a competitive transport […]

The externalization of freight car maintenance implies an economically effective component; however, the results depend on the form of property. […]

In Western Europe, most operators prefer new instead of refurbished vehicles. This is the conclusion of a market overview in […]

In April, the European Railway Agency (ERA) published the first part of an major report on the authorisation of railway […]

The opening of the railway freight market in Europe, the change in the market structure in terms of activity dynamics […]