A PATHWAY showing how to make rolling stock procurement decisions now has been released by the Railway Industry Association (RIA), which also targets the industry’s need to operate a lower cost, higher performance railway, by 2050.
Delivering a lower cost, higher performing, net zero railway by 2050 was published on April 11.
RIA claims that the whole system blueprint maximises current Government infrastructure plans while, at the same time, sets out how a coordinated ‘track and train’ approach could deliver improved outcomes for both passenger and freight users as well as the supply chain and the taxpayer.
This new strategy, says RIA, fast tracks benefits by focusing on opportunities for carbon reduction and air quality improvements in the short-term and will also enhance performance by introducing newer trains, which it claims will be more reliable (although figures published regularly suggest that this is not always the case), while also achieving lower costs and greater economic benefits by reducing the ‘boom and bust’ culture for the rail supply sector.
The key
