RailNetEurope is an organisation of 31 Rail Infrastructure Managers across Europe. Its main goal is to enable easy and fast access to European railway infrastructure and to increase the quality and efficiency of cross-border rail traffic. In January 2004, the European Rail Infrastructure Managers have established a common organisation to shape the business of European rail infrastructure.
With a Joint Office for coordination based in Vienna, RailNetEurope represents its members as Association for Facilitating International Traffic on the European Rail Infrastructure.
RailNetEurope is the consequent step from bi- and multilateral co-operations among European rail infrastructure companies towards one common organisation with a European focus. The members of RailNetEurope together harmonise conditions and introduce corporate approaches to promote the European rail business from the rail infrastructure point of view: to the benefit of the entire rail industry.
Open to the European Market
RailNetEurope is joined by 31 rail infrastructure managers, being either full or associated members or candidates.
All in all RailNetEurope partners serve a network of around 230.000 km railway infrastructure. Also a ferry line has joined the association and contributes to lower the barriers in international rail traffic.
The Infrastructure Managers involved in RailNetEurope today take care of 120 customers that are dealing with international business in Europe, the main target group of RailNetEurope. Furthermore there are more than 300 other railway undertakings that are only dealing with national traffic, today.
Also, for the first time Authorized Applicants – e.g. ports who want to ensure sufficient rail capacity - have taken the opportunity to get in direct contact for capacity and train paths requests with rail infrastructure managers.
Operational Business
The main approach of RailNetEurope is to improve operational issues of international rail infrastructure traffic.
To do this, RailNetEurope focuses the entire rail infrastructure production process. It starts with harmonising the members’ middle and long term planning, common marketing & sales approaches, appropriate planning, operations and ends up with RailNetEurope after sales services, such as monitoring and reporting.
RailNetEurope is an organisation of 31 Rail Infrastructure Managers across Europe. Its main goal is to enable easy and fast access to European railway infrastructure and to increase the quality and efficiency of cross-border rail traffic. In January 2004, the European Rail Infrastructure Managers have established a common organisation to shape the business of European rail infrastructure.
