Karima Delli and the rail freight sector reaffirm and underline the need to accelerate modal shift

Wednesday, 29 March 2023

Following a first joint declaration issued in May 2020, Karima Delli, the Chairwoman of the ‘Transport and Tourism’ committee of the European Parliament, together with the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) Josef Doppelbauer, and CEOs of European rail freight... Read More

Challenges faced by rail Infrastructure Managers to reach Green Deal goals

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

With the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy (SSMS), the European Commission presented its guidelines for the transport policy in the coming years. Transport must become more sustainable, intelligent and resilient.

CER Activity Report 2022

Thursday, 9 February 2023

CER Ticketing Roadmap - 1st progress report

Wednesday, 8 February 2023

The CER Ticketing Roadmap was published in autumn 2021 and embodies the members’ vision of railway ticketing and distribution by 2025 and 2030. The Roadmap establishes concrete actions to further improve the... Read More

CER Position - Commercial Conditions

Thursday, 2 February 2023

Commercial Conditions are financial mechanisms provided for the amendment and cancellation of requested/allocated train paths in order to incentivise a more efficient usage of the available infrastructure.

Rail infrastructure capacity and traffic management: implementation of TTR and DCM

Thursday, 2 February 2023

In view of the forthcoming update of the EU legislation on timetabling and path allocation in rail, this position paper highlight the necessary factors to make Timetable Capacity Redesign for Smart Capacity Management (TTR) a success story.

Reducing the negative impact of Temporary Capacity Restrictions

Thursday, 2 February 2023

Successfully reaching the ambitious goals of the European Green Deal and its Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy (SSMS) requires a substantial shift of traffic onto the railways. To cope with this additional traffic, a robust rail infrastructure and sufficient rail capacity is needed.

Hydrogen propulsion in the European railway sector

Thursday, 2 February 2023

With this paper CER formulates the needs of the railway operating community for hydrogen propulsion in terms of regulation and standardisation.

CER Position - Multimodal Digital Mobility Services Initiative

Thursday, 2 February 2023

The aim of the European Commission with the announced Multimodal Digital Mobility Services initiative (MDMS) is to integrate public transport and rail services to achieve seamless multimodal passenger transport.

Smart and affordable rail services in the EU: a socio-economic and environmental study for High-Speed in 2030 and 2050

Monday, 23 January 2023

This report presents the main findings underpinning the establishment of a European High-Speed Rail (HSR) Network connecting the main European cities and regions, combining investments in constructing creating/upgrading new HSR lines and upgrading the digitalisation and automation of existing... Read More