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DB presents study on high-speed network in Europe
Deutsche Bahn (DB), together with European partner railways from Belgium, Austria, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, has developed a study on expanding high-speed traffic (HGV) in Europe. The proposal for the "Metropolitan Network" includes the specific route expansion for fast passenger trains across the entire continent and the simulation of the resulting potential increase in traffic capacity on the environmentally friendly railways.
EU Green Deal
The starting point of the study is the "Green Deal" of the EU Commission. According to it, European high-speed rail (HGV) is to make a significant contribution to CO2 reduction in the transport sector, with a planned doubling by 2030 and a tripling by 2050. The specialists have analyzed in the study how such a "Green Deal" network must look in order to achieve the EU goals.
"A tripling of high-speed rail traffic in Europe is possible. If the infrastructure is in place, millions of people on the continent will benefit from attractive connections and shorter travel times," explains Michael Peterson, Deutsche Bahn's Board Member for Long Distance Passenger Transport. "The railway countries in Central and Western Europe, and even more in Southern and Eastern Europe, will benefit from this significantly. According to our calculations and simulations, attractive travel times will result on entirely new routes and through new transport hubs on the rail network."
Many new routes
The “Metropolitan Network” is set to connect all 230 metropolitan regions and the largest cities in Europe to the High-Speed Rail (HSR) at least every hour. The study defines agglomerations with more than 250,000 inhabitants as metropolitan regions. Therefore, around 60 percent of Europeans live in these metropolitan regions and should have direct access to HSR by 2050 – even in regions where there is currently no fast rail service at all. In total, 21,000 kilometers of rail network need to be newly built or upgraded across Europe. The routes designed for HSR are expected to nearly triple from today’s (Eurostat 2019) 11,300 kilometers to 32,000 kilometers by 2050. The network aims to accommodate speeds of up to 300 km/h.
If the route expansion, including the segments already under construction and planned, were to take place, the high-speed infrastructure in this country would grow to a good 6,000 kilometers. Poland would also benefit, more than tenfolding its network from today's 224 kilometers by adding 2,760 kilometers.
What does this mean?
For the “Green Deal” to succeed, the EU and its member states need to make significant additional investments and invest in network expansion across Europe. The participating railways plan to discuss this with policymakers next autumn. The infrastructure measures currently planned or under construction are not sufficient to double high-speed traffic by 2030.
People are reminded with horror of the press conference held by Transport Minister Volker Wissing, where he postponed the introduction of the “Deutschlandtakt” - the at least half-hourly, coordinated rail connection between German metropolises – to the year 2070.
Translated automatically from German.
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