RailNetEurope

In January 2004, a number of European Rail Infrastructure Managers established a common organisation to shape the business of European rail infrastructure.
With a Joint Office in charge of co-ordination based in Vienna, RailNetEurope represents its members as an Association dedicated to facilitating International Traffic on the European Rail Infrastructure.
RailNetEurope is the next step from bi- and multilateral co-operation between European rail infrastructure companies towards one common organisation with a European focus. Together, the members of RailNetEurope are harmonising conditions and introducing corporate approaches to promote the European rail business from the rail infrastructure point of view and for the benefit of the entire rail industry. RailNetEurope has been joined by 38 Rail Infrastructure Managers and Allocation Bodies, who are either full or associated members, or candidate members.
All in all RailNetEurope partners constitute a network of around 230,000 km of railway infrastructure. A ferry line has also joined the association and contributes to lowering barriers in international rail traffic.
The Infrastructure Managers involved in RailNetEurope today take care of 120 customers dealing with international rail business in Europe, the main target group of RailNetEurope. Furthermore there are over 300 other railway undertakings that only deal with national traffic.
Also, for the first time Authorized Applicants – e.g. ports who want to ensure sufficient rail capacity – have taken the opportunity to get in touch directly (for capacity and train paths requests) with rail infrastructure managers. The main objective of RailNetEurope is to improve operational issues in the field of international rail traffic.
To achieve this, RailNetEurope focuses on the entire rail infrastructure production process. It starts by harmonising the members’ medium and long-term planning, common marketing & sales approaches, and operations, and ends with RailNetEurope after-sales services, such as monitoring and reporting.