Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102044 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
KIT Working Paper Series in Economics No. 61
Publisher: 
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON), Karlsruhe
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.
Subjects: 
freight transport
railways
corridors
rolling stock
innovation policy
JEL: 
R48
L92
Q55
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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